2021 May 2

The Pelican Nebula is slowly being transformed.

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives.

Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story!

To some, this nebula looks like the head of a fish.

The constellation of Orion is much more than three stars in a row.

What's inside this cosmic cave? A stellar nursery 10 light-years deep.

Dark shapes with bright edges winging their way through dusty NGC 6188 are tens of light-years long.

The ghost of a long-dead star, the W63 supernova remnant shines like a faint cosmic smoke-ring along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy toward the northern constellation Cygnus the swan.

From afar, the whole thing looks like an Eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows the bright region is actually a window into the center of a larger dark shell of dust.