The patrons of the Slaughtered Lamb, the traditional Yorkshire pub with some striking decor in John Landis' American Werewolf in London, may want to keep their werewolf on the down low, but the ...

A dazzling new image from the European Southern Observatory's VLT Survey Telescope in Chile has revealed an unusual cosmic tale unfolding 6,000 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The ...

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Back in December, the European Space Agency released an image of the Soul Nebula, a portion of space located 7,000 light-years away. In the image, the iconic space telescope perfectly captured the red ...

Many know the Great Orion Nebula (M42) in Orion’s Sword as a bright diffuse nebula — a glowing cloud of cosmic gas illuminated by the Trapezium star cluster. But the Orion Nebula also has a dark side, ...

Just as Rene Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. This ...

This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope. The nebula is part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN 1641. It sits at about ...

"This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF ...

The shadow nebula LDN 1245 is located in the constellation Cassiopeia.