I took my son to the Rose Center for Earth and Space at New York’s Museum of Natural History. In the Hayden Planetarium, we watched a simulation of the Milky Way bloom above us, while the actor Pedro ...

Astronomers celebrated the release of the first images from the Rubin Observatory — and registered hundreds of its first ...

Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...

The Butterfly Nebula is about 2,500–3,800 light-years away from us. The Stingray Nebula: It is the youngest known planetary nebula, formed by a star rapidly turning into a white dwarf.

10 Beautiful Planetary Nebula Images by NASA’s Hubble Delicate wings of hot gas spew from a dying star, showcasing a stunning planetary nebula 2,500-3,800 light-years away.

The photo zooms in on NGC 1514, a planetary nebula about 1,500 light-years away. The reason that this view is so stunning lies in the detail that Webb's mid-infrared vision allows.

The breathtaking Butterfly Nebula, also known as NGC 6302, is a bipolar planetary nebula located in the Scorpius constellation. The Cat's Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula in the Draco constellation, ...

Today, astronomers recognize NGC 1514 as a large and complex planetary nebula. Located approximately 1,500 light-years from Earth, the nebula’s origins lie in the binary system HD 281679, which is ...

A team of astronomers has recently captured a stunning image of an unusual pre-planetary nebula, known as IRAS 23166+1655, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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.