The original photograph was posted on Oct. 31, 2022, on the NASA website in the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" section. The image does indeed resemble a bat, hence its nickname. It is also known as ...

Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting. Called an “enormous Lyman-alpha nebula” (ELAN), it is the ...

NASA's Picture of the Day has gifted us with a breathtaking cosmic delicacy: The Prawn Nebula, officially known as IC 4628. Nestled in the tail of the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius, this ...

NASA's Picture of the Day brings to light the stunning beauty of the cosmos, featuring the Iris Nebula, also known as NGC 7023, located 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. This ...

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A composite image of X-ray, radio, and optical light data from the "cosmic hand" nebula leaves open questions about the interaction that created it. Credit: NASA / CXC / S. Zhang et al / ATNF / CSIRO ...