Fall evenings are perfect for astrophotography because the cool weather keeps those pesky mosquitoes away, which gives me ...

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the sky this week.

The observations found that the protoplanetary disk of PDS 453 has the typical morphology of a highly inclined system with two reflection nebulae. The images show that the disk extends from near ...

The Trapezium resides in the bright central region. The star V830 Orionis shines on the cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC 1999 reflection nebula. The Helix Nebula is ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the illusion of a wolf-like silhouette against a colourful ...

The Butterfly Nebula, officially designated NGC 6302, is a bipolar planetary nebula situated in the constellation Scorpius. The Tarantula Nebula is a vast H II region located within the Large ...