Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

ABSTRACT Bipolar, elliptical, and circular planetary nebulae appear to be possessed of differing Galactic ... This, clearly, is an important result, since it implies that shell formation mechanisms ...

We may now know where they’re coming from – the death throes of a planet being torn to shreds and raining down on the star. The Helix Nebula is an eye-catching sight in the sky – and not ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 ... have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, visible in the ...

The Protoplanetary Disk and Planet Formation Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system originated from a vast cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As this nebula collapsed ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

the authors of the study conclude that they were likely formed from material ejected in a slow, heavy mass loss phase from the planetary nebula progenitor. Afterward, they were shaped by faster ...

From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...