You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...
Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...
In the Helix Nebula, a star much like our own is dying. Its death, though, creates a spectacle for us to appreciate now we have the James Webb Space Telescope to observe it. Knots of bright gas, ...
A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...
The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.
The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...
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 ...
New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula. The Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...