The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) is a massive star-forming region within the Milky Way. Officially discovered by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 1750s, the nebula stretches over 300 ...

A 3D-printed model of the Homunculus Nebula is compared to a Hubble Space Telescope image of the same object in this NASA photo. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Ed Campion A 3D-printed model of the ...

Using a 3D printer to make key fobs and automatic pistols is old hat. The latest thing is a 3D-printed model stellar nebulae. Using new telescopic observations, NASA has created a 3D model of the ...

Some things look weird. Others have peculiar characteristics that are not at all visually obvious, like extreme density. Still others earn their strangeness points solely because of bad behavior. It ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. See the highest-resolution views yet of the explosive star system Eta Carinae, which is 7,500 ...

A tweet sparked a debate over one of the James Webb telescope’s first images. Software developer and amateur astronomer Kevin Jardine, who created the European Space Agency’s Star Density Map and runs ...

Ever dreamed of holding a nebula in your hands? Thanks to NASA, this may now be a reality as the first high-resolution three-dimensional model of the expanding cloud produced by a massive star's ...

The Homunculus Nebula looks alive. Its two lobes of gas, which resemble twin human hearts stuck artery to artery, stretch half a light-year each from its center. And they’re getting bigger all the ...

Ever wanted to hold a nebula in your hands? Well now you can thanks to plans from NASA. Warning: It kind of looks like two molars stuck together. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and ...

Scientists have mapped the ‘Homunculus Nebula’ - a huge gas cloud surrounding the binary star system 'Eta Carinae' which looks like a little man, and have created a 3D template so it can be printed at ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A double-lobed star explosion seen by the Hubble Space Telescope has a more complicated backstory ...