Now, Hubble’s various images of the Butterfly Nebula have given us a glimpse of what it could look like after our star finally says goodbye. Many scientists expect the sun to die in around 10 ...

The 'Superbubble': N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, and massive stars. But, its most distinctive feature is the dark, starry gap called a ...

In 2009, Hubble used its new Wide Field Camera 3 to capture the bipolar nebula NGC 6302, also called the Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula, as it fluttered through the Scorpius constellation. The object ...

NGC 6302 is also known as the Butterfly Nebula and is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius. The "Butterfly Nebula" is witnessing a dramatic star demise, expelling a vast envelope ...

The Crab Nebula, formed by a 1054 AD supernova, features a fast-spinning neutron star and intricate remnants captured by NASA. Helix Nebula, known as "Eye of God," illustrates a dying star's gas ...

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant ...

A celestial oddity like this only adds to the galaxy’s haunting allure. Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) Few sights in the universe are as hypnotic as the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302. With vast, luminous ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their winters along the California coast — huddling together in tall tree groves, finding respite from the wind from ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... Hubble Space Telescope: Pictures, facts & history ...