SPHEREx's new images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

Charles Messier was an 18th century comet hunter who compiled a list of nebulae and star clusters – objects that could be mistaken for comets in a small telescope. His ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

After boasting of her beauty to the Nereids or sea nymphs, she is punished rather harshly in my view by Poseidon and finds herself tethered to the north star Polaris to spin around it for perpetuity ...

M57, also known as the Ring Nebula, is a planetary nebula—the glowing remnant of a sun-like star. At its center lies a tiny white dot, the star’s hot core, known as a white dwarf.

Ahead of a fandom meeting in Malad on March 29, Ayushree Tari, co-founder of Mumbai BTS revealed to us, “We dub the combined ...

An international team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Department of Astro and Particle Physics, together ...

How the Beautiful Butterfly Nebula Gets Its Mesmerising Wings? By MC Science Desk | March 21, 2025 How the Beautiful Butterfly Nebula Gets Its Mesmerising Wings? A stunning cosmic hourglass has formed ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

TIL Creatives Earth and Venus close together, illuminated by the sun against a backdrop of stars, galaxies, and nebulae. Skywatchers looking to catch a glimpse of Venus's transit between Earth and the ...