Located around 800 light-years away in the constellation Vela (the Sails), this nebula is one of the nearest supernova remnants to Earth. Though the unnamed star ended its life thousands of years ...

They were actually using the telescope to capture images of two actively forming stars in the Vela Constellation, providing us with the clearest images of star births ever seen. That alone would ...

NGC 2660, a glittering group of stars in the Vela constellation, shines through the darkness and is best viewed in the southern sky. The bright star NGC 1858, a 10-million-year-old open star ...

Kraan-Korteweg and her team published their discovery of the supercluster, named after the constellation Vela where it was found, in the Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Astronomical Society.