A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

We have never seen the Egg Nebula like this. In a new image taken by Hubble, we can see that the death throes of a dying star have crafted concentric rings, dust lanes, and polar lobes. The telescope ...

NASA has released a breathtaking image of the Helix Nebula, offering unprecedented clarity and detail into the final stages of stellar evolution. Captured using advanced imaging technologies, this new ...

Hubble has captured a detailed new image of the Egg Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula 1,000 light-years away. The glowing gas shells and twin beams of light reveal the dramatic final stage of a Sun-like ...

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view highlights glowing knots of gas shaped by fast-moving stellar winds ...