Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago.
This extraordinary image shows one of the highest excitation nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), two satellite galaxies of our own Milky Way. is a binary star, consisting of one WR-star — highly evolved massive star - and.
VISTA’s infrared view of the Orion Nebula This wide-field view of the Orion Nebula (Messier lying about 1350 light-years from Earth, was taken with the VISTA infrared survey telescope at ESO’s.
The wispy nebula running top to bottom of this image is a nearby star-forming region. In visible light, the dust within the nebula obscures and reflects the light of the stars within and behind it, giving rise to several cataloged nebulae.