Taken with data collected by Chandra, the pictures show a stunning range of phenomena, from the remnants of a supernova to a nebula thousands of light-years from Earth to the center of the Milky Way ...

Other images show the vivid colors of nebulae, like the crimson red of the Cat's Paw Nebula, which lies 4,370 light-years from Earth, and the bright purple of the Crab Nebula within the Taurus ...

When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. This phase is known as a “planetary nebula,” and astronomers expect ...