The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory by a new ESO image. The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery ...

Philippe Loys de Chéseaux first discovered the Omega Nebula (M17) in 1764, describing its elongated shape. John Herschel later (1833) noted its resemblance to the Greek letter Omega, leading to its ...

This week, Dave’s breaking down another pair of deep-sky objects that are situated nicely in the evening sky right now: the Eagle Nebula (M16) and the Omega Nebula (M17). Both of these are large ...

A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts of this ...

Two of the sky's more famous residents share the stage with a lesser-known neighbour in this enormous new three gigapixel image from ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST). On the right lies Sharpless 2-54, ...

After having recently posted an interesting picture of the results of star formation in a nearby galaxy, here’s another example, but far closer: an incredibly detailed image of the heart of the Omega ...

I’ve also lost a lot of sleep marveling at the wonders that Frontier Developments has built into its version of our galaxy, one it’s filled with trillions of procedurally generated worlds. I’ve also ...

The Omega Nebula, a stellar nursery where infant stars illuminate and sculpt a vast pastel fantasy of dust and gas, is revealed in all its glory by a new ESO image. The Omega Nebula, sometimes called ...

The Omega Nebula, sometimes called the Swan Nebula, is a dazzling stellar nursery located about 5500 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). An active star-forming ...