New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

A glowing nebula located approximately 2,700 light-years from Earth resembles a guitar with a bright pulsar at the tip of the ...

New images of the massive structure is helping astronomers identify the tune being played by the celestial guitar.

This brand new image shows the Horsehead Nebula, which is around 1,500 light years away from Earth. The nebula was formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud, and gets its glow from a nearby hot ...

A nebula is a giant cloud of mainly hydrogen ... The 12 200 kg telescope was placed into a 350 mile (or 570 km) high orbit around Earth by the Space Shuttle, Discovery, in April 1990.

but only about 3,500 have been confirmed because of the obscuring cloud of gas and dust hovering around the center of the ...

It is around 2,500 light years away ... At about 2,500 light-years from Earth, the Cone Nebula is relatively close to us, which makes it easy to observe. To find the Cone Nebula, scientists ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was ... at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 light-years from Earth, the cold clouds of cosmic dust create ...

There are strange "zebra" patterns coming from the Crab Nebula, and the reason has to do with plasma refraction.

A long-standing enigma surrounding the Crab Pulsar, a neutron star at the center of the Crab Nebula, may have been unraveled.