UNDER the title “On the Structure of Disk-shaped Extragalaetic Nebulæ”, F. Hoyle has published four papers (Mosc. Not. Roy. Ast. Soc., 105, 5, 287.; and 6, 363, 1945) in which the ...

New images of Milky Way, other galaxies released by world's largest telescope 02:59. The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can ...

At the center of the nebula is the culprit of this mystery: the small, dim remaining core of a star called a white dwarf. It is this white dwarf, named WD 2226-210 and located just 650 light-years ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It is the remnants of a star that was roughly 20 times as big as our sun and exploded about 10,000 years ago.