William Herschel first observed NGC 7635 in 1787 as a glow around the magnitude 8.7 star SAO 20575 (cataloged earlier as BD+60°2522). In a telescope, the Bubble Nebula looks more like a comma because ...

The Bubble Nebula (also designated NGC 7635) is a faint emission nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen near its border with Cepheus. It rides high in the sky at this time of year. You can ...

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For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Hubble image of the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may be experiencing problems this week, but it continues to offer a massive trove of data for astronomers to explore — including this week’s image of the beautiful and ...

Scientists aren't exactly sure how it formed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Wispy clouds of gas and a strange "superbubble" ...

As most of us sit here binging shows or partaking in a spooky season horror marathon, NASA continues looking to the stars, trying to learn everything it can about the universe. In its continued ...

A new image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope has been published by NASA, and it showcases a mysterious nebula. The nebula is called N44, and it's located about 170,000 light-years away from Earth ...

N44 is a complex nebula filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark lanes of dust, massive stars, and many populations of stars of different ages. One of its most distinctive features, however, is the dark ...