Captured in unprecedented detail, the image of the nebula focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width and roughly 1,300 light-years away from Earth.
This week, new infrared images captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope show this celestial body in never-before-seen detail—the edge of its mane unveiled in high resolution. Prior to ...
This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse’s “mane” that is about 0.8 light-years in width. It was taken with Webb’s ...
This brand new image shows the Horsehead Nebula, which is around 1,500 light years away from Earth. The nebula was formed from a collapsing interstellar cloud, and gets its glow from a nearby hot ...
The latest images from Euclid, a European mission studying dark matter and dark energy, are spectacularly beautiful—and ...
NASA Webb Telescope This image shows three views of the Horsehead Nebula. Image left, released in November 2023, features the Horsehead Nebula as seen in visible light by ESA’s Euclid telescope ...
This blue gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b is Jupiter-sized and is located 280 light-years away, in the constellation Sextans. When the cosmos was yet a tiny fraction of its present age, the James Webb ...
Editor's note: The new Euclid telescope images were released at 5:00 a.m. EDT (1200 CEST). You can see the five new views of the cosmos here in our image release story. The European Space Agency ...
Good morning. It's May 24, and today's photo comes from the European Space Agency's new Euclid space telescope. Good morning. It's May 21, and today's photo comes from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The Milky Way Photographer of the Year competition celebrates the best images of the Milky Way taken around the world — and ...
An interstellar structure known as “God’s Hand” can be seen reaching across the cosmos toward a nearby spiral galaxy in stunning new images captured by the powerful Dark Energy Camera. The "cloudy, ...
This large colourful view of the Horsehead Nebula (bordered in white) was captured by the Euclid telescope, while the green ...