Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT Survey imagery of these stunning regions of space. Credit: Space.com | animation ...

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A little over 2000 light years away, toward the constellation of Cepheus, is a place where stars are being born. It’s a nebula, a gas cloud, and it’s called IC 1396. It’s monstrous, well over a ...

The widely photographed and heavily studied Orion Nebula is nearly 300 light-years closer to Earth than previously thought, according to a new study. The finding, detailed in the Oct. 10 issue of ...

It is the most iconic image ever taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. The ‘Pillars of Creation’ showing the Eagle Nebula, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen detail of the light from a ...