A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...
As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...
Once all the helium disappears, the forces of gravity will take over, and the sun will shrink into a white dwarf. All the outer material will dissipate, leaving behind a planetary nebula.
About 650 light-years from here, in the constellation Aquarius, lies the planetary nebula Caldwell 63, commonly known as the ...
Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...
If you plan to stay up to watch the total lunar eclipse on Thursday, you won't need to do much to prepare like for a solar ...
Our own sun, about 5 billion years old, is considered a middle-aged star by comparison. All stars are born out of clouds of hydrogen gas. Randomly dense gas globules within the nebula develop and ...
Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...