Just as Rene Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe” on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. This ...

Scanning the constellation Cepheus the King leads us to one of the sky's largest emission nebulae - IC 1396. It measures a whopping 2.8° by 2.3°. But this region also contains dark nebulae and a ...

If you are a frequent reader of Astronomy, then you likely have seen images on its pages of objects from the famous Lynds' Catalogue of Dark Nebulae. These mysterious dark clouds of interstellar dust ...

A gorgeous new image of a nebular 500 light-years away gives a peek into the process of star formation. This image from the Dark Energy Camera shows both the dark cloud of Lupus 3 and the shining ...

This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope. The nebula is part of a so-called dark cloud, named LDN 1641. It sits at about ...

Here is a list with three objects per season which appear really large in the nighttime sky. Please note they aren’t all the brightest, but parts of the objects will be visible through binoculars. And ...