This cloud is supplemented with material from the gaseous, butterfly-shaped nebula beyond; the stars grow from material that accretes onto them from the dusty doughnut.

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

Detailed new images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago.

The Horsehead Nebula, which NASA has called "one of the most distinctive objects in our skies," is located in the constellation Orion. Latest U.S.

DALLAS (AP) — NASA’s Webb Space Telescope has revealed the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula, showing the “mane” in finer detail. The Horsehead Nebula, in the ...

Recent images of the Horsehead Nebula are the sharpest infrared images ever, per the agency NASA Space aficionados are raving about the latest images released of a special horse-shaped nebula ...

Astronomers have theorized that the nebula is ring-shaped or has a soap bubble structure, but the model created from the SMA data revealed it is an ellipsoid. The SMA data pinpoint the velocities and ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this ...

To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

Remember, it is the magnetic field that ultimately drives the outflows, so how it behaves is important for sculpting the shape of the nebula. The dust polarization reveals that about 93 billion ...

Lynds bright nebula 483, seen in infrared light by the JWST. (Image credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI) The jets are formed by material with a rich abundance of varied molecules falling onto young protostars.