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 ...

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 ...

The planetary nebula is located 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco. Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home ...

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 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 ...

One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness.

The nebula -- located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy -- is a fiesta of star formation, home to thousands of up-and-coming stars that are among the hottest and most ...

Astronomers modeled the stunning Cat's Eye Nebula in 3D, revealing the mysterious planetary nebula's history for the first time.

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.