Billions of years ago, in the icy outskirts of the solar system, a dramatic collision forged the unusual pairing of Pluto and its moon, Charon. This celestial dance defied expectations, birthing a ...
First identified in the early 19th century, the Helix Nebula is one of the closest to Earth, located about 650 light-years ...
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 ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a close-up view of a dying star located 650 light-years away, which is ...
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 ...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
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 ...
A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of gas and dust shaped by a dying star in the Helix Nebula, ...