Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star in NGC 6072, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula. Credit: ...

In their dying throes, some stars leave behind beautiful planetary nebulae — disk, spiral or even butterfly-shaped clouds of dust and gas (SN: 5/17/18). How these fantastically shaped clouds arise ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has captured an image of a cosmic phenomenon known as a planetary nebula. The glow of planetary nebula ESO 577-24 will last only a short time — 10,000 years, ...

The jug-like structure is a rare and short-lived double-lobed planetary nebula. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The stellar ...

This Hubble image shows ESO 455-10, a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scorpius. The color image is composed of near-infrared and optical observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 ...

image: Planetary nebula HuBi 1 (left) and another planetary nebula Abell39 (right, 6800 light years away from our solar system). Abell39 is an archetypal, textbook case of a spherical nebula ...

The origin of the chemical elements in the Universe is one of the most fascinating and enduring mysteries in astronomy. Progress so far has come from studies of stars, but here only elemental ...

The Necklace Nebula (IPHASX J194359.5+170901 or PN G054.2–03.4), located approximately 1° east-southeast of Beta Sagittae, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagitta. Discovered in 2005 using ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...

The two spiral arms winding towards the bright centre might deceive you into thinking you are looking at a galaxy a bit like our Milky Way. But the object starring in this image is of a different ...

May 7 (UPI) --When the sun finally dies, 10 billion years from now, it will become a planetary nebula, according to a team of scientists at the University of Manchester. Some 90 percent of all stars ...