The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

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The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

creating the dark structure seen in the image. The different colors in the image represent different elements that are present in the nebula. The blue shades in the background come from ionized ...

Looking like a bird ready to take flight from atop a post, this dusty filament within the Eagle Nebula was recently captured ... wavelengths of emission. Blue is from ionized oxygen.

An important clue to which perspective was right seemed to be hidden in the nebulae—fuzzy smears of light ("nebula ... Dark. Today, astronomers have measured the distance to the Andromeda Galaxy ...

Mars is shown in a rarely seen blue shade, coloring skies over ... white dwarf star at the nebula’s heart, the agency said. The dark and stormy Rosette Nebula is shown in another of the newly ...

The dark cloud shown here stretches an estimated 180 light-years across, or more than 60 times wider than our solar system, and contains the equivalent mass of 250,000 suns.