The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

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Astronomers have discovered a gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting a small red dwarf star, challenging existing planet formation models. This Saturn-sized planet, located 241 light-years away, defies the ...

However, a new study suggests that this could happen a lot earlier, in about 2 billion years. In fact, the culprit won't be Andromeda, but a dwarf irregular galaxy. Scientists have long theorised that ...

At its heart is a tiny motorised refractor telescope that collects light on a Sony image sensor; it's operated solely by an app and has no eyepiece. It's not unusual for modern telescopes not to ...

A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope is allowing astronomers to examine the complex and turbulent final stages of a dying star.

The snapshot above showcases NGC 1514, a planetary nebula that resides roughly 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.Despite the term, however, NGC 1514 has nothing to do with ...

Significance of NASA's Image. Released on March 4, 2025, NASA's image of the Helix Nebula reveals its gaseous shells illuminated by the central white dwarf-the remnant core of a dying star. These ...

It is a planetary nebula, a halo of gas jettisoned by a star that ran out of nuclear fuel. At its center lies a white dwarf — the leftover heart of that once-mighty star. The white dwarf is not ...

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Observations revealed a subtle 2.9-hour periodicity in the X-ray signal, suggesting the presence of planetary remnants in an extremely close orbit around the white dwarf.

The Helix Nebula is about 650 light-years from Earth. At its heart is a white dwarf called WD 2226-210, the leftover core of a star that shed its outer layers long ago.