The Seagull nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, draws its common name from it resemblance to a gull in flight. But it depends on your point of view. Seagull Nebula…
This Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar ‘twisters’ – eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures – in the heart of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) which lies 5,000 light-years away in the…
Lost: A giant belt of brown clouds big enough to swallow Earth twenty times over. If found, please return to Jupiter. In a development that has transformed the appearance of the solar system’s largest planet, one of Jupiter’s…
