What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images of the Helix Nebula. With the use of Webb’s NIRCAm, pillars ...

There, stretching across the heart of the cloud of cosmic dust and gas, lies a giant, oddly linear, bar-shaped cloud of ...

You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

Astronomy helps scientists understand how stars are born, live, and eventually die. One key question people often ask is what ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

IS this what the end of days looks like after the Sun has swallowed Earth up? Fear not, we’ve got some time to go – ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers studying the famous Ring Nebula have uncovered an unexpected and puzzling feature: a massive cloud of iron atoms ...