A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...

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.

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 ...

A new Webb image shows a new view of the gorgeous Flame Nebula, an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there.

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. Located 15,000 light-years from Earth, at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way ...

the Veil Nebula. ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulfur ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the “spectacular” Ant Nebula. The extremely ...

In the new images, the rings turned out to be very bright with respect to the inner shell of the nebula. Furthermore, the observations found the existence of faint emission extending outside the ...