Eye of God nebula. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) Staring like the unblinking eye of God (or the eye of Sauron, depending on your literary taste) the Helix Nebula is an infamously spooky object that has ...

Nebulas — colorful clouds of expanding gas and dust — have long captivated stargazers with their beauty. Here are 28 of the most stunning nebulas in the universe.

The Helix Nebula, located 650 light-years from Earth, has baffled scientists for decades. The planetary nebula was created by a dying star that shed its outer layers of gas, leaving behind a small ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white ...

At the center of the nebula is the culprit of this mystery: the small, dim remaining core of a star called a white dwarf. It is this white dwarf, named WD 2226-210 and located just 650 light-years ...

A famous example of an emission nebula is the Orion Nebula, a huge star-forming nebula in the constellation Orion. This is the closest nebula to Earth, so you can see it even with the naked eye ...

Known as one of the most complex nebulae in the universe, NGC 6543 , also known as the Cat’s Eye Nebula, is slightly more than 3,000 light-years away from Earth.Astronomers are a bit closer to ...

Tonight, the Helix sits just 2.5° east-southeast of Vesta. If you need a brighter signpost, look 7.8° southwest of Skat or 1.2° due west of 5th-magnitude Upsilon (υ) Aquarii. Sunrise: 6:18 A.M.

A photo allegedly showing the Helix Nebula and that was said to have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was circulating online in late November 2024.. One X user, whose post had ...

A 3-D visualization of the Cat’s Eye nebula (left) reveals partial gas rings (yellow) as well knots and whorls on either side of the central gas bubble (blue), all of which were probably ...