A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic death of a giant star, this cosmic cloud glows with energized gases and ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

It lies in a dense star field 1.9° south of magnitude ... A nice catch This week’s first large-scope object is planetary nebula NGC 2867 in Carina the Keel. Sir Patrick Moore included this ...

Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a ...

When such a star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it expels its outer layers into space, forming a planetary nebula. The remaining core, extremely dense, becomes a white dwarf. This dead star is mainly ...

Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could be created when young star systems clash ... in the Orion nebula. With masses lower than those of the smallest stars but ...

NGC 7293, better known as the Helix nebula, displays its ultraviolet glow courtesy of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX ...

is a large and complex elliptical planetary nebula at a distance of about 1,500 light years away. It originated from a binary star designated HD 281679. The bright, visible component of the system ...