The dust also acts as a cooling mechanism, helping gas to condense and add to the mixture. “The nebula’s colorful gas clouds hold wispy tendrils and dark clumps of dust,” Hubble scientists ...

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...

On average, within the Sombrero, half a solar mass of gas is converted ... MIRI sees is the Sombrero's dust-rich outer ring, containing fascinating detail of wispy clouds of dust.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning planetary nebulae — colourful cosmic clouds formed by dying stars, showcasing ...

Already ghostly tendrils ahead of the black cloud are being destroyed by the blue star, one of the famed Seven Sisters, Hubble scientists said Wednesday. The dark and dusty surface of the gas ...

The Eagle Nebula is shaped by dense clouds of gas and dust that create a silhouette resembling an eagle with outstretched wings. A cluster of young stars lies outside the frame of this new Hubble ...

These dust clouds fill the spaces between ... here represented as green. The wispy shapes trace out the flow of interstellar gas and dust. The dim linear band of infrared light running diagonally ...

A brilliant cloud of gas shines beautifully 163,000 ... will likely go supernova in millions of years, blowing the dust and gas of LHA 120-N55 away from its current position.

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars. Sagittarius C is one ...

Here, a massive and dense cloud of interstellar gas and dust has collapsed on itself over millions of years to form thousands of new stars. In a new study, a team of scientists used observations ...

Experts have found that clouds affect the climate in a variety of ways. Different cloud shapes play different roles in climate moderation. “Cirrus clouds — high, wispy clouds visible in the ...