In this combined image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the star’s dusty outer layers are unraveling into space, glowing from the intense ultraviolet ...

A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the ...

A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the ...

NASA has taken to its exoplanets X account to highlight an image captured by multiple of its telescopes, writing "something's watching". The space agency explains in its X post that it appears the ...

Washington, DC — The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a challenging stargazing target for amateur astronomers. It is one of the closest planetary nebulas — a type of nebula formed from gas ejected by a ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation. In ...

Now that the seasons have changed, spooky season has officially arrived. It’s once again that time of the year where anyone and everyone from Spirit Halloween to NASA aims to get as spooky as possible ...

This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at ...

Our spectacular view of a nearby planetary nebula was captured by luck when the Hubble Space Telescope was turned around to avoid damage from a meteor storm – directly towards the Helix Nebula. While ...

Warning: that links to a 7 Mb image, but it’s very pretty. What you’re looking at is one of my favorite kinds of cosmic critters: a planetary nebula, specifically, the Helix Nebula. When a star like ...