Located in the constellation of Serpens, the Serpent, the Eagle Nebula is a very luminous open cluster of stars surrounded by dust and gas. The three pillars at the center of the image ...

M17, often called the Omega, the Swan, and the Checkmark Nebula, stars in a new image taken by the VISTA telescope in Chile.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the developing star system Lynds 483, revealing intricate gas and dust structures from p ...

The celestial squabble between two stars has been going on for thousands of years, and is set to continue for another 1 million years.

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Found in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is about 6,500 light years away. In its wider dimension, the nebula is about seventy light years from edge to edge. Astronomers currently ...

L483 is 650 light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) All the symmetries and asymmetries in these clouds may eventually be explained as ...

The region, known as Lynds 483, or L483 for short, lies approximately 650 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Serpens. At the heart of L483, astronomers have identified at least two ...

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, a vast, expanding cloud of gas and dust resulting from the explosion of a massive star. The Serpens Nebula is a prime location for studying the formation of ...