10 Beautiful Planetary Nebula Images by NASA’s Hubble. Delicate wings of hot gas spew from a dying star, showcasing a stunning planetary nebula 2,500-3,800 light-years away.

Thanks to the James Webb telescope, we can now see the nebula with more clarity. As one expert says, "We always knew planetary nebulae were pretty. What we see now is spectacular." ...

A planetary nebula is an emission nebula consisting of an expanding glowing shell of ionized gas ejected during the asymptotic giant branch phase of certain types of stars late in their life.

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Hubble has shown off its imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young planetary nebulae known as NGC 6302 and NGC 7027. The former is also ...

The planetary nebulas shown here are NGC 6543, also known as the Cat's Eye, NGC 7662, NGC 7009 and NGC 6826. This image was released Oct. 10, 2012. X-ray Emission Image of Planetary Nebula Gallery ...

NGC 2438 is a planetary nebula, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. The medium-sized star would have expelled its outer layers of gas into space as it died, leaving behind a white-dwarf core.

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how ... This is the first map of NGC 7027, or any planetary nebula, in the ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from RIT and Green Bank Observatory ...

7 Rare images of Planetary nebulae captured by NASA. ... When a sun-like star dies, it expels its outer layers, forming a luminous, expanding cloud of ionized gas known as a planetary nebula.

Hubble Telescope captures image of celestial string of lights from erupting planetary nebula (with video) Updated: ; Dec. 26, 2012, 3:02 p.m. | Published: ; Dec. 26 ...

The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the ...