Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula. As a result, ...

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

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

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 ...

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

121, No. 878, 2009 April The Origin and Shaping of Planetary Nebu... ABSTRACT.Planetary nebulae (PNs) are circumstellar gas ejected during an intense mass-losing phase in the lives of asymptotic giant ...

An international team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Department of Astro and Particle Physics, together with scientific amateurs, has identified a new class of galactic nebulae. Thi ...

NGC 460 is surrounded by a number of other young stellar clusters and varying sized nebulae, which are clouds of gas and dust that fuel new star formation. Within this region, also known as N83 ...

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.

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are nebulae powered by the wind of a pulsar. Pulsar wind is composed of charged particles and when it collides with the pulsar's surroundings, in particular with the ...