An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...

What makes this discovery even more interesting is that ices are not known to survive in planetary nebulae.

Using NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, astronomers have observed remnants of the eruption of Nova Persei 1901. As a result, ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are ...

Two telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing how a dying star shed layers of material in violent ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

There’s a short dark window of about an hour after the Moon sets and before twilight begins to brighten the sky this morning. Use it to track down one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky: ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

With no Moon in the sky, we’re centering on M15, which stands 60° high in the southern sky around 3:30 A.M. local daylight time. (Nighttime observers can also catch this object, though it rises about ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

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, ...