It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
First identified in the early 19th century, the Helix Nebula is one of the closest to Earth, located about 650 light-years ...
In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...
The universe never ceases to amaze, and the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided an incredibly detailed glimpse into one of the cosmos' most intriguing structures—the ...
"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...
A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...
We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older ...
A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers ...