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

In its short existence, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has transformed our understanding of the universe. It has ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

The following Friday, January 17, Vincent presents “The Robots of Mars,” which recounts the history and evolution of the ...

121, No. 878, 2009 April The Origin and Shaping of Planetary Nebu... ABSTRACT.Planetary nebulae (PNs) are circumstellar gas ejected during an intense mass-losing phase in the lives of asymptotic giant ...

The second key was the work of Vesto Slipher, who had investigated the spiral nebulae, before Hubble's Andromeda discovery. These bodies emit light which can be split into its component colors on ...

Wilson Observatory in California, where he would work for the rest of his life. He was researching nebulae, fuzzy patches of light in the sky. In 1924, he announced the discovery of a Cepheid ...