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 NGC 6543 known as the Cat's Eye Nebula as it appears to the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope. A planetary nebula is a phase of stellar evolution that the sun should ...

is that the ruins of a Jupiter-sized world continuously fall onto the nebula’s white dwarf star, getting frazzled and glowing in X-rays. “We don’t know very much about how planetary systems ...

The Red Rectangle Nebula, as its name implies, appears rectangular in shape and has a striking color along with an enormous X shape ... what is known as a proto-planetary nebula.

Exhaled by a dying star, the newly-discovered planetary nebula, Kronberger 61, is named for its finder: Austrian Matthias Kronberger, member of the amateur astronomy group Deep Sky Hunters.

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.

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 Eight-burst nebula, and Caldwell 74 are just unofficial nicknames), is a planetary nebula that was formed in the final moments of a sun-like star's lifetime. In fact, our own Sun may one ...

The Planetary Nebula in the 500 Myr Old Open Cluster M37. The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 2022; 935 (2): L35 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac88c1 Cite This Page : ...

Appearing to burst from space in glowing red and blue, this stunning photo captures large planetary nebula Abell 31. Skywatcher Adam Block took this photo from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter at the ...

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 ...