The Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) is a vast region of star formation. This new portrait of NGC 6334 was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager instrument at the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope ...

The star at the center of this Hubble image of the Cat's Eye Nebula is called a red giant star, which is what our sun will eventually become after it runs out of hydrogen to burn. As the star ...

Located 7,100 light-years from Earth, the Bubble Nebula spans an impressive 7 light-years, with its intense central star being 45 times more massive than our Sun! A planetary nebula located 3,000 ...

In fact, for every star born in the Milky Way ... Glowing with an ethereal beauty is the Cat's Eye Nebula, or NGC 6543, (pictured above) which was also imaged by Hubble. It is a planetary nebula.

Two large star clusters gaze out of the skull's "eye sockets," giving the nebula its forbidding look. Keeping with the high-seas theme, the Skull and Crossbones nebula lives in the constellation ...