The evocatively named Eight-Burst Nebula is formed from the gases spewing forth from two dying stars. But that’s about all we know for sure about this strangely shaped cosmic oddity. The Eight ...

Also known as the Eight-Burst Nebula — or, if we want to be all boring and technical, NGC 3132 — this cosmic beauty is located some 2,000 light-years from Earth. It’s not actually a regular ...

NGC 3132, as its formally called (the Southern Ring Nebula, the Eight-burst nebula, and Caldwell 74 are just unofficial nicknames), is a planetary nebula that was formed in the final moments ...

One of its first bangers, released in July, was of the Southern Ring Nebula (or “Eight-Burst” nebula), a cloud of gas stretching out to nearly a light-year in distance. The newest photo peered ...

The data is just so rich.” This cloud of dust and gas surrounding two stars is called the Southern Ring Nebula, or the Eight-Burst Nebula. Both of these images show the nebula in infrared ...

About 2,000 light years distant in the constellation Vela, it’s also sometimes called the “Eight-Burst” nebula. About 290 million light-years aways in the constellation Pegasus, this is a ...

This set included astonishingly sharp pictures of the Carina Nebula, the Eight-Burst Nebula, a group of galaxies called Stephan’s Quintet and a galaxy cluster stretching the light of the objects ...

Today, the images and data from four further targets have been unveiled. They include an image of the Southern Ring, or “eight-burst” nebula (main image above), which is a planetary nebula almost half ...

One of its first bangers, released in July, was of the Southern Ring Nebula (or “Eight-Burst” nebula), a cloud of gas stretching out to nearly a light-year in distance. The newest photo peered even ...