A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying white dwarf that may have taken a planet out with it. The observation was ...

A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of strange emissions from the nebula. The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell ...

NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula, is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, and belongs to a class ...

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.

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to have been devoured by a dying star. Researchers have been detecting X ...

The Helix nebula may point to the ultimate fate of our sun — and Earth. This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center; this star may have destroyed a planet. This has never been seen ...

This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope ...

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

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and spectacular phenomenon.

The mysterious X-rays could be the by-product of that annihilation. The Helix Nebula is an astounding ring of glowing gas with the star at its center. It was a star much like the Sun, but when it ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is 650 light-years from Earth, according to NASA. It's the remains of a dying star, which is gradually shedding its outer gas layers into the ...