Eye of God nebula. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) Staring like the unblinking eye of God (or the eye of Sauron, depending on your literary taste) the Helix Nebula is an infamously spooky object that has ...

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 light years away.

Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat.

JWST’s keen eye shows how intricate filaments of gas lace together to form grand spiral arms, beckoning viewers toward the seething star cluster at the galaxy’s center. 6. Little Ghost Nebula ...

The Ring Nebula, as seen with JWST's NIRCam instrument (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow, N. Cox, R. Wesson) related stories - Space photo of the week: A cosmic 'ghost' peers through ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope image of the Ring Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust around a dying star, is showing astronomers unprecedented detail about the mysterious cosmic object.

Fresh observations of the Ring Nebula have now traced the motion of gas molecules along its border, allowing astronomers to tease out its structure in greater detail. The results show the remnant ...

The nebula was ejected only about 4,000 years ago, researchers say. "The James Webb Space Telescope has provided us with an extraordinary view of the Ring Nebula that we’ve never seen before ...

Fresh observations of the Ring Nebula have now traced the motion of gas molecules along its border, allowing astronomers to tease out its structure in greater detail. The results show the remnant ...

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." ...

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 ...