The image was captured by NIRCam, Webb's primary near-infrared imager, which aims to provide high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy.
NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured the explosive death throes of a star within the brilliantly glowing Calabash Nebula, providing new insights into stellar life cycles.
Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows ...
Hubble’s new image shows the Calabash Nebula’s dying star blasting gas at immense speeds, revealing dramatic lobes, shockwaves and crucial insights into stellar death stages.
Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope, the aptly named Butterfly Nebula is 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. A single light-year is 6 trillion miles. At the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation’s NoirLab released the picture Wednesday.
The most publicized church in the world in 1962 has been the Little Falls United Presbyterian Church of Arlington, Virginia. Its minister, the Rev. Frank A. Erwin, has played a key supporting role in ...
From the meteor showers to super moons, this time of year gives us a front row seat to one of the most active regions of the ...
For 19-year-old Gael Gomez, the Mount Pleasant Sidewalk Astronomers has changed his life for the better. But soon, he may be ...
Featuring the new "Time Space Gate" camera module, the Huawei Mate X7 has been unveiled in full at an event in Dubai.
This week we take a look at layers -- layers in nebulae, layers in the Martian atmosphere, and layers in our own atmosphere.
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Butterfly Nebula revealed by Gemini South telescope
NGC 6302, more romantically known as the Butterfly Nebula, was chosen by Chilean schoolchildren as the latest subject for observation by the Gemini South telescope there. The resulting image, released ...
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