Nearly 550 light-years away lies the Ghost Nebula, which haunts the constellation Cassiopeia like a shadow. Named after a vain queen in Greek Mythology, the constellation Cassiopeia forms a ...

The Ghost Head Nebula's two flaming-hot eyes peer at us all the way from the Magellanic cloud, located about 170,000 light-years away from Earth. Its glowing eyes are star-forming regions with hot ...

The Pleiades (M45) in the constellation of Taurus. Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118) in the constellation of Orion. Ghost Nebula (IC 63) in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The Horsehead Nebula ...

Wispy and faint, The Little Ghost Nebula (NGC 6369) is a monument to stellar death. Illuminated by the dying spirit of a white dwarf star (the smoldering husk of a once-mighty star that has ceased ...

The Boomerang Nebula is a numbing 1 degree Kelvin, or about -458 Fahrenheit, more than a degree colder than the background radiation of the Big Bang, according to calculations by an astronomy team ...

but they make up only a small region of the roughly 70-light-year-wide nebula. The Ghost Head Nebula is another star formation hub. Its red-and-green glow comes from light emitted by hydrogen and ...

This nebula located 550 light-years from Earth within the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen has been nicknamed the "Ghost Nebula" for its shape and appearance. NASA explains in its blog post that ...

Astronomers have revealed more dramatic details of one of our most ghostly discoveries, the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52 ... field ‘bones’ within the ghost-like phenomenon.

The Ghost Nebula: A nebula in the constellation of Cassiopeia has flowing veils of gas and dust that have earned it the nickname the "Ghost Nebula." Tarantula Nebula’s Outskirts: ...

A new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope offers a fresh look at the Veil Nebula, a vast supernova remnant that has been expanding for over 10,000 years. This nebula is the remains of a ...