100 Planetary Nebulae (to scale) (Image Credit: Judy Schmidt/NASA). The name "planetary nebula" might indicate planets are somehow involved, when it is actually a reflection of the way these ...

New images of a "born-again" planetary nebula give a glimpse of what our sun might look like in 5 billion years when it transforms into stellar giant near the end of its life cycle.Scientists ...

Planetary Nebula Called Abell 39 (IMAGE) University of Manchester. Caption. Abell 39, the 39th entry in a catalog of large nebulae discovered by George Abell in 1966, is a beautiful example ...

Called Abell 33, the nebula is located roughly 2500 light-years from Earth, and was pictured with a star in front of it to create a diamond ring effect.

These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. A planetary nebula -- so called because ...

The planetary nebula stage is the ultimate fate of stars ... the nucleus of TS 01 16; MT Ser, the nucleus of Abell 41 25, NGC ... which is confined to a narrow range between 62.2° and 63.8 ...

Astrophotographer Bob Franke captured this stunning image of planetary nebula Abell 39 6,800 light-years away from Earth. See how Franke made the image here.

This beautiful cosmic object is a planetary nebula named Abell 24, captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). Located in constellation of Canis Minor (The Lesser ...

Images of the Abell 39 planetary nebula could help settle an argument about what is inside dying stars.