The Most Comprehensive Picture of Eta Carinae to Date
This four minute video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center combines data from NASA satellites and theoretical modeling to produce an unparalleled look into Eta…
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ESA Image of the Week: Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise of NGC 6302
This ESA image of the week shows the remains of dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun. Known as…
Astronomers Discover Water-Building Molecule in Planetary Nebulas
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have discovered a water-building molecule in three planetary nebulas. Using ESA’s Herschel Space Oobservatory,…
Hubble Image of the Day: The Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula
This Hubble image of the day represents the sharpest view ever taken of the Orion Nebula. This dramatic image offers a peek inside a cavern…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Views Planetary Nebula Abell 33
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile shows planetary nebula Abell 33. Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have…
Spitzer Views the Orion Nebula
Using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers created a new false-color image of the Orion Nebula. Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Views Dying Stars
Three newly released images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show the remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are…
ALMA Views the Coldest Place in the Universe: The Boomerang Nebula
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope, astronomers view the coldest known object in the Universe, the Boomerang Nebula. At a cosmologically crisp one degree…
Astronomers Find Bizarre Alignment of Planetary Nebulae in the Milky Way
Using Hubble observations, a new study from the University of Manchester has found that bipolar planetary nebulae located towards the central bulge of our Milky…
New Herschel Image of the Orion A Star-Formation Cloud
This new composite image from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the Orion A star-formation cloud. This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from…
Hubble Views Planetary Nebula IC 289
A newly released Hubble image shows the remains of a star known as planetary nebula IC 289. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the…
A Closer Look at Planetary Nebula NGC 2392
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope, astronomers studied NGC 2392 and two other planetary nebulas with hot gas in their center,…
The Seagull Nebula and its Cloud of Dust and Glowing Gas
Captured by the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, this new image shows a section of the Seagull Nebula, also known as…
WISE Views the Orion Nebula
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) captured a new view of the Orion nebula and the tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion’s…
Crab Nebula Contains Enough Dust to Make Around 40,000 Earths
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, a team of astronomers discovered filaments of dust shining in the far-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum, providing definitive evidence…
VLT Survey Telescope Image of the Carina Nebula
ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope captured this new image of the Carina Nebula, a huge stellar nursery lying about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation…
Spherical Phase of Planetary Nebula Abell 30
These new images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, which is located 5,500 light-years away from Earth, show one of the clearest views ever obtained…
Planetary Nebula Fleming 1 Likely Has Two White Dwarfs Circling Each Other at its Center
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely to have two white dwarfs at its center, circling each…