In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and observe a planetary nebula in the ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright objects on telescope images. The stars follow a nine-year orbit and are ...

Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University) One of the most striking examples of a supernova remnant is the Crab Nebula, found in the constellation of Taurus. Sometime between April and June of ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star's life.

A huge family of newborn stars seem to now be going their separate ways: Over 1,000 stars are hurriedly fleeing their nest in ...

The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. It is a white dwarf star that was ...