image: The planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), is located about 5500 light years from Earth. The inset image on the right is a close-up view of A30 showing X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X ...

This image is of planetary nebula NGC 7662 as seen with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should experience several billion years from ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star. Skip to content Subscribe or renew today ...

This image of an exquisite puff of interstellar gas, resembling a union of soccer ball and jellyfish, was released July 25 by the Gemini Observatory. Exhaled by a dying star, the newly-discovered ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the clearest image so far of the Red Rectangle Nebula. Futurism Updated 11.29.16, 10:16 AM EST by Cecille De Jesus ...

But one planetary in Camelopardalis, just 7.5° from Polaris, is the poster child for symmetry. The Lemon Slice Nebula (IC 3568) is a young planetary spanning only some 0.4 light-year.

The subject of this dynamic portrait of a dead star is located more than 2,000 light-years away (in the constellation known as Vela). NGC 3132, as its formally called (the Southern Ring Nebula ...

IT LOOKS like a soap bubble or perhaps even a camera fault, but the image at right is a newly discovered planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae, which got their name after being misidentified by ...

The Ring Nebula is about 2600 light years away in the direction of the constellation Lyra. It is what astronomers call a planetary nebula, which forms when a dying star blows off its outer layers ...

Abell 31 is a very faint nebula caused by a dying star as it releases dust and gas. This massive planetary nebula is about 2,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cancer.