Nebulae are vast clouds of gas and dust, sometimes reaching sizes of light years, marking the creation sites of new stars and marking the deathbeds of old stars. Due to the light of the nearby ...

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 ...

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, there ...

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

The Necklace Nebula, formed by two doomed stars, glows with bright gas clumps like a cosmic diamond ring. Located 15,000 light-years away in the Sagitta constellation, it shines as a stunning ...

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 ...