UNDER the title “On the Structure of Disk-shaped Extragalaetic Nebulæ”, F. Hoyle has published four papers (Mosc. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc., 105, 5, 287.; and 6, 363, 1945) in which the ...

New images of Milky Way, other galaxies released by world's largest telescope 02:59. The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can ...

THE establishment of the scale of distances in the extragalactic universe rests primarily on the determinations of the distances of the nearest galaxies. These distances have been obtained ...

At the center of the nebula is the culprit of this mystery: the small, dim remaining core of a star called a white dwarf. It is this white dwarf, named WD 2226-210 and located just 650 light-years ...

The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is the remnants of a star that was roughly 20 times as big as our sun and exploded about 10,000 years ago.

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.