This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation. An ...

Our spectacular view of a nearby planetary nebula was captured by luck when the Hubble Space Telescope was turned around to avoid damage from a meteor storm – directly towards the Helix Nebula. While ...

NASA has taken to its exoplanets X account to highlight an image captured by multiple of its telescopes, writing "something's watching". The space agency explains in its X post that it appears the ...

Washington, DC — The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) is a challenging stargazing target for amateur astronomers. It is one of the closest planetary nebulas — a type of nebula formed from gas ejected by a ...

A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the ...

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. A new picture, taken in infrared light, reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are invisible in images taken in visible light, as ...

Warning: that links to a 7 Mb image, but it’s very pretty. What you’re looking at is one of my favorite kinds of cosmic critters: a planetary nebula, specifically, the Helix Nebula. When a star like ...

One of the most amazing objects in the sky is the Helix Nebula, an expanding cloud of gas and dust surrounding a dying star. This type of object is called a planetary nebula, and it’s formed when a ...

The vivid colors of the Bubble Nebula shine in this green and yellow image. Jaspal Chadha took the image from his backyard in London in April 2015 and recently shared it with Space.com. To take the ...