The Orion Nebula is the only nebula that can be seen with the naked eye, despite being 1,344 light years away.

Crab Nebula: This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Vol. 121, No. 878, 2009 April The Origin and Shaping of Planetary Nebu... ABSTRACT.Planetary nebulae (PNs) are circumstellar gas ejected during ...

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.

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

When a mid-sized star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star ...

Using more than 100 spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Butterflies explores the beauty of the most mysterious celestial objects in space, planetary nebulae. The mystery begins ...

Bainbridge Island’s astronomy community just earned an out-of-this-world accolade, so expect some more howling at the moon ...

Sir William Herschel's contributions to astronomy during the late eighteenth century are unrivaled. His lasting legacy is his dedicated all-sky survey of star clusters and nebulae, and these objects ...