At the heart of the double-lobed Toby Jug planetary nebula is the red-giant star HR3126, which at just 50 million years old, is considerably younger than the 4.6-billion-year-old sun. HR3126 ...

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 nebula is formed from the dying star's outer envelope, which is puffed off into space following the star's red giant phase. The Southern Ring Nebula was imaged in December 2022 by the James Webb ...

A nebula is formed from the dying star's outer envelope, which is puffed off into space following the star's red giant phase. The Southern Ring Nebula was imaged in December 2022 by the James Webb ...

“We don’t know very much about how planetary systems behave after their star transitions from a red giant to a super long-lived white dwarf,” says Paul Byrne, a planetary scientist at ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

This is a planetary nebula named Kohoutek 4-55, ... Once a red giant star has exhausted its available fuel and shed its last layers of gas, its compact core will contract further, ...

The aptly named Egg Nebula, lying 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is a protoplanetary nebula. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel.Through this process, aging stars expand about 100 to 1,000 times their original size. But ...