The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective ...

Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. They simply appeared kinda like planets in telescopes long ago, their ...

Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, is more than 2,000 light years away, in the Lyra constellation. Discovered in 1779 by a French astronomer , it doesn't take a fancy instrument for an ...

Two different views of the Horsehead Nebula. On the right is a view of the nebula in visible light, taken using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile (eso0202a).

Messier 57's white dwarf is visible as a small white dot in the new images: The brightest star here is the dying, extremely hot central star. It has used up all its fuel and is now cooling down.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just headed into its second year in service, and recently recorded new images of the Ring Nebula named Messier 57.This nebula is about 2,600 light-years ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope’s studies of the Crab nebula may shed new light on the supernova remnant’s origins. Skip to main content. Scientific American. November 10, 2023. 6 min read.

The scavenger hunt is not yet complete—the Hubble Messier Catalog currently exhibits images of 84 of the 110 Messier objects and plots them on an interactive map—but that’s partly because of ...

Scientists have homed in on a popular cosmic object, and are now seeing it in a whole new neon light. The Ring Nebula, also called Messier 57, is a cloud of gas and dust shed from a dying star ...