You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of the interstellar environment, and as far as these features go, the Helix Nebula is one of the most famous ones. It’s been closely studied by astronomers ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how Helix Nebula's stars end their life, showing colourful nebulae formed by dying stars ...

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The Helix Nebula has long been a favorite target for backyard telescopes, a pale blue eye staring out from the constellation Aquarius. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has turned that familiar ...

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 ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cloud in the shape of a bar 2,600 light-years from Earth.

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...