The stellar remnant, a white dwarf, lies at the center of a cloud of stellar wreckage, gas and dust that astronomers call a planetary nebula.It's located in the open star cluster Messier 37, which ...

Scientists have studied a planetary nebula in Messier 37, as though it were a cosmic crime scene, to determine how the dead star at its heart lived and died. Stars.

University of Tübingen research team uses the open star cluster Messier 37 as a celestial laboratory to determine stellar evolution and measure loss of mass Stars like our sun end their lives as ...

ABSTRACT Archival IUE spectra of the Galactic halo planetary nebula PN G243−37.1 have been reprocessed by the NEWSIPS routine. The new results show a much richer emission‐line spectrum than has ...

While most planetary nebulae are small and beautiful, there is no doubt that the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) is something special. Found by Charles Messier in July 1764, M27 was the first planetary ...

Messier’s contemporary Pierre Méchain discovered the Little Dumbbell Nebula on Sept. 5, 1780, communicating to Messier that it is “small and faint” without any stars.

THE very red star in the outlying regions of Messier 37 referred to in the Astronomical Column of NATURE of June 14, p. 870, was brought to our attention some years ago by Prof. v. Zeipel as an ...

A fleeting moment in time. The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time—around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in astronomical terms.

The planetary nebula K4-47 is enriched in 13C, 15N and 17O isotopes. Observations reveal that a particular planetary nebula — the ejected envelope of an old star — is unusually enriched in ...

The Dumbbell nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope. The nebula was named after its resemblance to a dumbbell […] ...