The sixth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features the final act of a star near the end of its life.
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Massimo Di Fusco, taken from Ferrra, Italy Jones-Emberson 1 is a very faint planetary nebula about 1,600 light-years away in ...
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The Gemini South telescope is located on Cerro Pachón mountain in the Chilean Andes, at an elevation of over 2,700 meters ...
By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS Hα Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar ...
There are a lot of nebulae in the universe, and they often get given catchy names like the Crab Nebula or Cat's Paw Nebula.
A telescope in Chile has captured a breathtaking new image of a planetary nebula that resembles a graceful cosmic butterfly. The stunning picture, released by the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab ...
A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science ...
Schoolchildren in Chile chose this astronomical target to celebrate 25 years of operation by the International Gemini Observatory.
A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.