NASA has released a breathtaking image of the Helix Nebula, offering unprecedented clarity and detail into the final stages of stellar evolution. Captured using advanced imaging technologies, this new ...

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. A new picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as ...

Last Quarter Moon occurs at 12:36 A.M. EDT; later this morning, the Moon will pass 3° due north of Mars at 8 A.M. EDT. With no Moon in the evening sky this week, it’s going to be a great time for some ...

Planetary nebulas are made by dying stars about the size of our sun. One of the most famous is called the Helix or Eye of God Nebula, officially NGC7293. It is about three light years across and 700 ...

A nearby planetary nebula shines like a huge golden eye in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile. The image shows the Helix Nebula, which lies about 700 light-years from Earth in the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has captured this unusual view ...

What we’re looking at here is the swansong of a star much like our own Sun – that’s to say, a bog-standard, average-sized star. Not massive enough to go supernova when they run out of nuclear fuel, ...

All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

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 ...

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 ...