The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. The Hourglass Nebula: This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the ... of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might ...

RIT Professor Joel Kastner leads a research team that determines the true three-dimensional structure of the iconic Ring ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

This is a planetary nebula designated as NGC 6302 located about 3800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.

The Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, is a planetary nebula in the Draco constellation that's about 3,262 light years away from Earth. NASA captured this stunning image of a runway star Zeta ...

Hourglass Nebula: MyCn18 is a young planetary nebula shaped like an hourglass, located about 8,000 light-years away from earth. The stunning image was taken with the Wide Field and Planetary ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified dozens of Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) in the Orion Nebula ... ejected planetary systems, or a mix of both. Simulations repl ...