The original photograph was posted on Oct. 31, 2022, on the NASA website in the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" section. The image does indeed resemble a bat, hence its nickname. It is also known as ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new image from the European Southern Observatory captures a Cosmic Bat tucked away in one of ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Tucked ...

Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, this Cosmic Bat is spreading its hazy wings through interstellar space two thousand light-years away. Too dim to be discerned by the ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting. Called an “enormous Lyman-alpha nebula” (ELAN), it is the ...

A composite image of X-ray, radio, and optical light data from the "cosmic hand" nebula leaves open questions about the interaction that created it. Credit: NASA / CXC / S. Zhang et al / ATNF / CSIRO ...

Astronomers have revealed more dramatic details of one of our most ghostly discoveries, the pulsar wind nebula MSH 15-52, also known as the ‘cosmic hand’ or 'hand of God'. By combining the powers of ...

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