It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...
This image of the Helix Nebula from the ground-based Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view ...
The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...
Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...
The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...
What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star ...
A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.
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