NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

Astronomers have used several telescopes to take a new picture of a distant pulsar and its surrounding nebula shaped like a ...

The nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way, is around the star cluster known as NGC 1929. Scientists describing the superbubble they discovered estimate ...

(Space.com) The shock wave from an exploding star likely helped trigger the formation of our solar system, according to a new 3D computer model, researchers say.

Previous observations of Pa 30 revealed a white dwarf star at the center of the nebula. The superdense object is all that remains of the exploding star that lit up the night sky 843 years ago.

NASA explains that the Veil Nebula is a result of a star that's estimated to have been 20 times the mass of the Sun exploding in a violent supernova around 10,000 years ago.

The Carina Nebula sits roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) ...

Exploding stars spawn giant space 'superbubble' A bustling nebula full of bright young stars is dominated by a cosmic superbubble in a remarkable new image of a star cluster in a neighboring galaxy.

The Carina Nebula sits roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) Seeing that far into space can be tricky, even when gazing at one of our galaxy's brightest objects ...

Huntsville Real-Time News New NASA movie of exploding star has Alabama roots Updated: Jan. 08, 2020, 2:49 p.m. | Published: Jan. 08, 2020, 2:15 p.m.