Astronomers from the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, and elsewhere have employed NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft to observe a pulsar wind nebula inside a supernova remnant known ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This multiwavelength scene shows the Jellyfish Nebula supernova remnant (right), the interstellar cloud it's interacting with, and ...

The star that formed the Jellyfish nebula may have had a partner star that exploded 100,000 years earlier, according to international researchers, who say that this may be the first known discovery of ...

Astronomers’ best view yet of the aftermath of a “guest star” supernova seen in 12th-century China and Japan has revealed one of the strangest objects in the heavens. It consists of hundreds of ...

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A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

Two enormous stars may have lived and died as partners, leaving behind overlapping shells of wreckage about 6,000 light-years from Earth. One exploded first. Its companion traveled through space for ...