In 2004, the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, an orbiting space telescope scanning distant groups of galaxies, found a bizarre object. Among other oddities, this body appeared to be blue, despite giving off ...

In 2004, scientists with NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer spotted an object unlike any they’d seen in our Milky Way Galaxy: a large, faint blob of gas that seemed to have a star at its center. In the ...

Astronomers were surprised when they discovered what appeared to be a star surrounded by an ultraviolet ring 16 years ago. It became known as the Blue Ring Nebula, located 6,300 light-years away from ...

A malevolent, screaming skull face. A witch cackling in profile. An all-seeing eye, gazing red and furious from the cosmic depths. Space can be as terrifying as it is beautiful. From nebulas — vast ...

The Iris Nebula holds special significance for scientists because of its unique colours.