Astronaut Nichole Ayers recently witnessed a phenomenon known as a sprite from the International Space Station.

These molecular clouds are often very dusty, so much so that patches of them become impenetrable to visible light, as we can see in this image of Chamaeleon I, taken by the 570-megapixel Dark ...

Now the telescope is giving astronomers clues about the formation of a new star, with a stunning image of an hourglass-shaped dark cloud surrounding a protostar, an object known as L1527.

Star-forming cloud Chamaeleon I looks like a cosmic masterpiece in new Dark Energy Camera image (video) Amateur astronomer captures Cigar Galaxy and Bode's Galaxy swimming in a spectral nebula (photo) ...

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It is surrounded by dark dust clouds, including LDN 1450 near the center of the image and B205 at upper right. This is an example of dark nebulae silhouetted by a starry field. Credit: Rodney Pommier ...

Stock image of a very dark cloud over a city. Istanbul was thrust into darkness on Tuesday as a heavy cloud rolled over the city, nearly blocking out the sun entirely for around 5 minutes.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, which lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.