Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) The North America Nebula in Constellation Cygnus ...

The most prominent of these dark nebulae is called the Pipe Nebula. Cygnus from right to left (north to south) starts with the emission nebula Sharpless 119 in the upper right.

September’s Cygnus is, however, no umirayushchiy lebed (dying swan). With the naked eye and beneath dark skies, the swan soars along the star clouds of the northern plane of the Milky Way. Binoculars ...

NGC 6883 in Cygnus has about two dozen 8th-magnitude stars within an area roughly 11′ across. ... Dark nebulae counter the sparkle of stars and the glow of hydrogen gas.

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff ...

About 10,000 years ago, a new star appeared in what we now recognize as Cygnus the Swan. It was the light from a supernova explosion that occurred about 2,400 years earlier, when a star with roughly ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 times that of the sun.

Part of the larger Gum 55 nebula, the Dark Wolf Nebula, looks suitably blood-curdling in time for Halloween. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

As interesting and epic photos of space can be, the unknown can be just as equally spooky. Case in point, NASA released a snapshot of the Cygnus Loop over the weekend, and the result is pretty ...

A photo of one such dark nebula was released by NASA on Monday. It was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Called LDN 1165, the dark space cloud is located in the constellation Cepheus.