Fifth-year Yale astronomy doctoral candidate Emma Louden GRD ’26 co-authored an illustrated children’s story to inspire the ...

NASA has images of both the Spider Nebula and the Red Spider Nebula. The Spider Nebula is a star-forming region, while the Red Spider Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. The ...

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the sky, and it’s even more impressive once you get to know ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions in the Pottsville sky, and it is even more impressive once you get ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the Butler night sky, and it’s even more impressive once you ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for Earth and Space Exploration/JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...