This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals this spooktacular image of a dark nebula that creates the ...

Dark nebulae are cold clouds of cosmic dust, so dense that they obscure the light of stars and other objects behind them.

The European Southern Observatory captured a Halloween-themed image of the Dark Wolf Nebula, a hauntingly dense cloud of ...

Once blocked from view, the most massive young star cluster in the Milky Way has finally been revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The European Southern Observatory has prepared a Halloween treat for astronomy enthusiasts: a stunning, eerie image of a dark ...

Città della Scienza hosts the new evocative "Appointment in the Milky Way" on November 8 at the Planetarium. It will be an evening divided into two time slots (7:00 PM or 8:30 PM) full of ...

This record-breaking map includes 200,000 images taken by ... hidden regions of the Milky Way, opening up a unique window into our galactic environment. This gigantic dataset (1) covers an area of the ...

Filled with over 1 million dazzling sources of stars and galaxies, the European Space Agency on Wednesday released mindblowing images of what deep space and our own Milky Way galaxy are made of.

“This stunning image is the first piece of a map that in six years will reveal more than one third of the sky,” a Euclid project scientist at ESA, Valeria Pettorino, said in a press release. “This is ...

Visible from Earth's Southern Hemisphere just below the tail of the Scorpion — and close to the core of the Milky Way — it's the largest known ... our night sky would be full of hundreds of stars as ...