A malevolent, screaming skull face. A witch cackling in profile. An all-seeing eye, gazing red and furious from the cosmic depths. Space can be as terrifying as it is beautiful. From nebulas — vast ...

The Ring Nebula (M57) in Lyra is visible with a 4-inch or larger telescope during the Northern Hemisphere's summer and fall, located midway between Beta Lyrae and Gamma Lyrae. M57, with a magnitude of ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has observed the well-known Ring Nebula with unprecedented detail. Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is ...

The Ring Nebula, also called Messier 57, is a cloud of gas and dust shed from a dying star about 2,600 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA Scientists have homed in on ...

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 and ...

Planetary nebulas are made by dying stars about the size of our sun. One of the most famous is called the Helix or Eye of God Nebula, officially NGC7293. It is about three light years across and 700 ...

In the pioneering days of long-exposure astrophotography in the late 19th century, the use of dry plates over wet collodion plates simplified the photographic process. The increased light sensitivity ...