Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of ...
The Ring Nebula is a bright shell of gas in the constellation Lyra. It has long served as a textbook example of how stars ...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
The Milky Way's plane cuts through the northwestern corner of Ara the Altar, blessing this southern constellation with a surplus of deep-sky delights. But perhaps none surpasses the stunning emission ...
A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous ...
The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...