The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of Sauron .” It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located ...

You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

There, stretching across the heart of the cloud of cosmic dust and gas, lies a giant, oddly linear, bar-shaped cloud of ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

Deep inside the Ring Nebula, astronomers have spotted a structure that should not exist: a narrow, glowing bar of iron ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...

Webb’s breathtaking view of the Helix Nebula shows a dying star’s final breath becoming the seeds of future worlds.

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of ...