This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

We love a good physics or astronomy stamp here at Physics World and this year ... The other stamp has an image of the iconic Pillars of Creation within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6500 ...

The evening appearance of the celestial shark, Baidam traced out by the stars of the constellation Orion tells Torres Strait ... The stars in Orion's nebula represent a fish, and the stars of Orion's ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

The seal is made up of the eagle, an olive branch, arrows, a flag-like shield, the motto “E Pluribus Unum” and a constellation of stars.

The seal is made up of the eagle, an olive branch, arrows, a flag-like shield, the motto “E Pluribus Unum” and a constellation of stars. The Great Seal of the United States. commons.wikimedia ...