Discover the secrets of SDSO 1, a 400,000-year-old ghost planetary nebula near Andromeda, revealing new insights into stellar ...

The Crystal Ball Nebula has captivated astronomers for more than 200 years, and it offers a bittersweet glimpse of a dying ...

Planetary nebulae offer snapshots of stellar change. They show what can happen when stars like our sun eventually exhaust ...

The JWST’s mid-infrared photos show two distinct, concentric dust rings surrounding the nebula, not visible in optical ...

An interstellar discovery that resembles a crystal ball is captivating space enthusiasts around the world. New images of the ...

A planetary nebula is a violent environment filled with intense UV radiation that is hostile and destructive toward molecular species. However, new observations from an international team of ...

Planetary nebulae like the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) are sort of like stellar obituaries. Though crystal balls supposedly reveal the future, the Crystal Ball Nebula tells us more about the past.

To understand how long a planetary nebula remains visible, we first need to understand why a planetary nebula is visible at all. When a solar-type star (one with a mass of 0.8 to eight times that of ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...

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The two spiral arms winding towards the bright centre might deceive you into thinking you are looking at a galaxy a bit like our Milky Way. But the object starring in this image is of a different ...