The Swan Nebula shines in this beautiful night sky image captured by a team of veteran astronomy photographers. Astrophotographers Bob and Janice Fera took this image of the Swan Nebula between June 3 ...

The Swan Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory by a new European Space Observatory (ESO) image. The Swan Nebula, sometimes ...

In this composite image of the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, SOFIA detected the blue areas near the center and the green areas. The white star field was detected by Spitzer. SOFIA’s view reveals evidence ...

Stellar nurseries are some of the most photogenic regions in the universe. The gas and dust of these nebulas consist of different elements that appear in our telescopes and cameras as a variety of ...

Thanks to new telescope observations, we know more about the origin story of a "star factory" in space than ever before. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

One of the brightest and most massive star-forming regions in our galaxy, the Omega, or Swan, Nebula, came to resemble the shape resembling a swan’s neck we see today only relatively recently. New ...

This eerie image of the Swan Nebula is illuminated by around three dozen huge, hot baby stars burning brightly and reflecting off of dust from collapsed stars. The wind from the active star forming ...

One of my favorite kinds of astronomical photos is when a big, professional telescope is used to observe something I’ve seen myself at the eyepiece of my own home ‘scope. Another kind is when amateur ...

COLUMBIA, Md. and HONOLULU, Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Universities Space Research Association today announced that SOFIA revealed a new view of the Swan Nebula showing that parts of it formed ...