This cool space wallpaper shows a broad panorama of the Carina Nebula, a region of massive star formation in the southern skies, was taken in infrared light. Image released February 8, 2012.

Nebula images are some of the most beautiful cosmic photos ever taken. ... The background image has been recorded by the Spitzer Space Telescope in the infrared, showing emission from cool dust.

A stunning new image of the Carina nebula reveals cold, dusty cosmic clouds where violent and dynamic star formation is taking place. IE 11 is not supported.

Just recently, scientists have discovered that the coldest place in the natural Universe is the Boomerang Nebula. It's fairly close - only about 5,000 light years away. The Boomerang Nebula first ...

The Lagoon Nebula, as imaged by the new SPECULOOS Southern Observatory. ESO The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has been showing off its new toys, recently sharing first light images from its ...

The nebula is situated more than 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf irregular galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. ESA/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens ...

In the mid-1990s, Dr. Sahai and a fellow astronomer, Dr. Lars-Ake Nyman, realized that the Boomerang Nebula was colder than the background temperature of the universe. It seemed to be absorbing ...

The Herschel Space Observatory captured this image of the Eagle nebula, with its intensely cold gas... [+] and dust. The "Pillars of Creation," made famous by NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 ...