The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 ...

The Eagle Nebula (M16) hatched from a star that exploded some 5.5 million years ago. Since then, it has evolved into a productive region of star formation, giving birth to more than 8,000 new stars.

Since the Eagle nebula is 6,500 light-years away, its light takes about 6,500 years to reach Earth and telescopes today reveal the nebula as it existed in the distant past.

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas ...

The nebula's "Eagle" name comes from how it looks when you pan across it, where edge clouds like the one in the image look like the wings of a giant bird of prey. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

Astronomers suspect the star, called HD 165319, was once part of a young cluster in the nearby Eagle Nebula, a bustling star-forming region best known for the iconic "Pillars of Creation." ...

The fascinating Eagle Nebula is a dust filled stellar nursery filled with dust and lit up by bright infant stars. This new image, captured by the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter Telescope at La Silla, Chile, is ...

NASA has released a stunning 3D video showing what it would look like to fly through the famous ‘Pillars of Creation’ nebula. The very first images of the nebula, located around 6,500 l… ...

Located close in the sky to the famous Eagle Nebula, this is also a busy region of star formation where clouds of dust and gas are coalescing into knots and forming the hearts of new stars.

The largest-known nebula in the universe, the Tarantula Nebula, spans more than 1,800 light-years across at its longest span, according to LiveScience. It's located 170,000 light-years away from ...

The new Eagle nebula photo, released today (Jan. 17), is actually a combination of views from the European Space Agency's infrared Herschel space observatory and the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.