The shape is formed by the remains of a dying star with a very dense stellar core that is shedding its outer layers.

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New images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in ...

Space scientists just dropped a jaw-dropping new composite image of the Tarantula Nebula, and it looks less like a standard space photo and more like a high-tech cosmic art project. NASA described the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A new composite image from NASA telescopes has revealed that the Tarantula Nebula may be losing far more energy than astronomers previously understood. Located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in ...

The image combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a telescope in Chile. Compare this to what the James ...

New movies of two of the most famous objects in the sky—the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A—are being released from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. Each includes X-ray data collected by Chandra over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA layered X-ray, infrared, and optical light from 3 giant observatories to bring us this stunning view of the Tarantula Nebula ...