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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Messier 57 is known as a planetary nebula. These objects are the colorful remnants of dying stars that have tossed a majority of their mass at the end of their stellar lives.

Messier 16: Better known as the Eagle Nebula, Messier 16 has provided Hubble with some of its most iconic images. NGC 7027: This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts nearby young ...

The Ring Nebula: Messier 57, more commonly known as the Ring Nebula, is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. It was discovered by French ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula. The new images capture the complex details of the planetary nebula, an enormous cloud of cosmic gas ...

Your Wednesday morning roundup: August 30, 2023 00:34 (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula. The new images capture the complex ...