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 ...

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 ...

NASA captured a new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra. The Eskimo Nebula, also known as the Clown Face Nebula, Lion Nebula, or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double-shell ...

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

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 ...

A hazy Nebula: This new image from Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases NGC 1501, a complex planetary nebula located in the large but faint constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe).

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

when they and the shell of gas that surrounds them are known as planetary nebulae. In one of them, called WeSb 1, the scientists discovered that the brightness of the star occasionally flickered.

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 ...

January started out with a meteor shower and now has a planetary alignment in store. Here's what you'll be able to see and ...