You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of the interstellar environment, and as far as these features go, the Helix Nebula is ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope uncovers intricate gas and dust structures in the Helix Nebula, offering new insight into ...

Many observatories have captured the Helix Nebula, but none in such detail as the Webb.

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star ...

In general, planetary nebulae (PNe) are expanding shells of gas and dust that have been ejected from a star during the process of its evolution from a main sequence star into a red giant or white ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our galaxy has been announced. The announcement was made by a team of three astronomers ...