Vikas Chander from New Delhi, India The faint planetary nebula Abell 7 in Lepus the Hare has an overall spherical appearance - the result of a dying star blowing its outer layers off into space.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vikas Chander from New Delhi, India Abell 35 (Sharpless 2–313) is a nebula in Hydra surrounding a stellar binary, one of which is a white dwarf. The nebula resembles a planetary nebula, produced ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

After a couple billion years, most stars with a mass similar to our Sun eventually die, shedding outer layers and creating beautiful planetary nebulas. On the outer layers of this nebula, Abell 78 ...

The Medusa Nebula glows at magnitude 10.3, but that brightness is a bit misleading. Its diameter is 10′, which makes its surface brightness low. Indeed, it’s tough to spot through an 8-inch ...

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.