Astronomers have used several telescopes to take a new picture of a distant pulsar and its surrounding nebula shaped like a ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

A newly released NASA image reveals extraordinary details of a pulsar-driven nebula, shaped like a human hand reaching ...

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The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

A formation known as the "Dumbbell Nebula" – nicknamed because it looks like a dumbbell – should be easy to spot throughout the August, NASA said in an skywatching guide.

See Dumbbell Nebula, M27, in August 2025 One of the easiest planetary nebulas to observe, the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as M27, appears high overhead in the first half of the night in August.