A cloud of gas expelled by a dying star has done something rare in nature: it cooled below the background temperature of deep ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The distinctive appearance of IC 443's shell-like structure has led to it being nicknamed the "Jellyfish Nebula," owing to its ...

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Star factory: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured G035.20-0.74, a star-forming nebula in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle, known for producing a particular kind of massive star known as a B-Type ...

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An international team has made use of the power of the HAWK-I infrared instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to produce the deepest and most comprehensive view of the Orion Nebula to date.

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