New Research Shows That Something Strange Is Going On in the Butterfly Nebula
Planetary nebulae are formed when red giant stars reach the end of their helium fuel supply and eject their outer layers, becoming hot and dense…
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“Astonishing” – Cat’s Eye Nebula Seen in 3D for the First Time
Astronomers Discover Rings with Near-Perfect Symmetry in the Cat’s Eye Nebula Researchers have constructed the first computer-generated three-dimensional model of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, revealing…
Complete Chaos: Scientists Unravel the Early History of the Solar System
The solar system’s chaotic early stages An international team of researchers led by the ETH Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS…
Astronomers Discover New Class of Galactic Nebulae
An international team of astronomers led by Stefan Kimeswenger from the Department of Astro and Particle Physics, together with scientific amateurs, has identified a new…
Eagle, Omega Nebula, Trifid, and Lagoon: Four Famous Nebulae With Breathtaking Beauty
Nebula [ neb-yuh-luh ]: star-forming cloud of gas and dust. Noun, plural neb·u·lae [neb-yuh-lee, -lahy] These four nebulae are known for their breathtaking beauty: the…
Tour Stunning Hubble Images of Incredible Nebulae in This New NASA Video
Over the years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken hundreds of images of different kinds of incredible nebulae in our universe. A nebula is a…
Celestial Hourglass: Exquisite Planetary Nebula Captured by Gemini Telescope
The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of…
Astronomers Build Incredible 3D Visualization of Exploded Star Using NASA’s Great Observatories [Video]
Movie Dissects the Nebula’s Intricate Nested Structure In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the…
See the Final Stages of a Star’s Life via the Hubble Space Telescope
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 5307, a planetary nebula that lies about 10,000 light-years from Earth. It can be seen…
Hubble Captures The Death of a Star
This atmospheric Picture of the Week, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a dark, gloomy scene in the constellation of Gemini (The Twins)….
Hubble’s “Jellyfish” Portrait of Star’s Gaseous Glow
Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this rounded object, named NGC 2022, is certainly not algae or…
Astronomers Discover Ultra-Close Stars Inside Planetary Nebula M3-1
An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three…
Astronomers Discover a Structurally ‘Inside-Out’ Planetary Nebula
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and an International…
Astronomers Reveal a Magnificent New Composite Image of the Crab Nebula
Next year marks the 20th anniversary of NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory launch into space. The Crab Nebula was one of the first objects that Chandra…
Spectacular and Unusual ALMA Image of Web Filaments in the Orion Nebula
New data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and other telescopes have been used to create this stunning image showing a web of filaments…
New Insight Into the Hole at the Heart of the Rosette Nebula
A hole at the heart of a stunning rose-like interstellar cloud has puzzled astronomers for decades. But new research, led by the University of Leeds,…
Hubble Telescope Discovers Substellar Objects in the Orion Nebula
In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered the largest known population…
ALMA Observes Gas Emission in a Protoplanetary Disk
Using the ALMA facility, a team of astronomers is the first to obtain spatially resolved observations of gas emission in the protoplanetary disk around the…
