The sky will get a colourful nebula, and the remains of the explosion become a small, dense star. While we will not be around ...

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 ...

Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have seen the Ring Nebula. It’s a favourite amongst stargazers around the globe and ...

The modeling allowed the astronomers to estimate that roughly 6,000 years have elapsed since the dying star, then a red giant, ejected the molecular gas that envelopes the nebula. The SMA data ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a close-up look at R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star system located around 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Red Giant and a ...

Because a red giant is so large, its heat spreads out and ... which creates an expanding shell of gas called a planetary nebula. Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed ...

R Aquarii is a symbiotic binary star that lies roughly 700 light-years from Earth, surrounded by a large, dynamic nebula. The primary star is an aging red giant, and its companion is a compact ...