Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

This week’s small-telescope targets are a trio of open clusters in the constellation Cygnus the Swan: NGC 7062, NGC 7063, and NGC 7082. Let’s start with NGC 7062. It lies 2° west-northwest of ...

The latest image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a glimpse of an elegant, delicate portion of a huge round nebula which was formed when a star 20 times the mass of our sun exploded ...

A spectacular photo from a NASA telescope has revealed a wispy blue nebula with an odd twist: It looks like a giant human head in deep space. The head-in-space nebula photo was snapped by NASA's ...

As interesting and epic photos of space can be, the unknown can be just as equally spooky. Case in point, NASA released a snapshot of the Cygnus Loop over the weekend, and the result is pretty ...

NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, is a large emission nebula (2° by 1 2/3°) located near Deneb in the constellation Cygnus, and is part of a larger complex including the Pelican Nebula (IC 5070) and ...

Nebulas abound in this beautiful photo. Taken by astrophotographer André van der Hoeven from his backyard observatory in the Netherlands, this amazing image prominently features the northern ...

If you’d been here several thousand years ago and looked up in the sky on a clear night, you’d have seen a very small, but very bright object flaring brilliantly some 1,500 light-years away. That ...