NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...
A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...
For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...
Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.
Using the new LIFU technology on the William Herschel Telescope, researchers have detected a massive iron cloud.
A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...
Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...
The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...