The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...

Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They simply appeared kinda like planets in telescopes long ago, their ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

Messier 57's white dwarf is visible as a small white dot in the new images: The brightest star here is the dying, extremely hot central star. It has used up all its fuel and is now cooling down.

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, is more than 2,000 light years away, in the Lyra constellation. Discovered in 1779 by a French astronomer , it doesn't take a fancy instrument for an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. Skip to main content. Your source for the latest research news.

Scientists have homed in on a popular cosmic object, and are now seeing it in a whole new neon light. The Ring Nebula, also called Messier 57, is a cloud of gas and dust shed from a dying star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just headed into its second year in service, and recently recorded new images of the Ring Nebula named Messier 57.This nebula is about 2,600 light-years ...

Called the Messier marathon, it’s a skywatching challenge that prompts astronomers to spot all 110 galaxies, nebulas and star clusters in the Messier catalog, a list of objects started by 18th ...

The Ring Nebula is the sky’s most famous example of a planetary nebula. Messier described it as “very dull, but perfectly outlined; as large as Jupiter and looks like a fading planet.” ...

Two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile (eso0202a).