This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope ...

In this space wallpaper, this colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2 ...

The Helix Nebula can be seen through binoculars as a ghostly, green-coloured cloud in the constellation Aquarius. The European Space Agency unveiled its image today to mark Astronomy Day.

The dusty dead star appears as a dot in the middle of the nebula, like a red pupil in a green monster’s eye. The Helix nebula, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius ...

This Helix Nebula images contains infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (green and red), optical light from Hubble (orange and blue), ultraviolet from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution ...

One of the most amazing objects in the sky is the Helix Nebula, an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. This type of object is ...

NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula, is located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, and belongs to a class of objects called planetary nebulae. Check out these 7 vivid images of ...

3. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, formed from the outer layers of a dying star similar to our Sun, located about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius.

The Helix Nebula is called a planetary nebula (confusingly, this name has nothing to do with planets but is a historical artifact arising from a mistake by scientists in the 19th century), which ...