As with planetary nebula M76, its discoverer, William Herschel, resolved this single bipolar object into two parts, thus the double NGC number. The southwestern lobe is NGC 2371, and the ...

Star Gazers host Trace Dominguez breaks down the 5 different types of nebulae: emission, reflection, planetary, supernova remnants and dark. Experience their rich spectrum of colors and find out ...

Most planetary nebulae are round — or close to it — but the Robin’s Egg Nebula (NGC 1360) in Fornax stretches that rule. It appears twice as long (6.5′) as it is wide, with the long axis ...

The medium size planetary nebula is the final stage of a medium-sized star. The intimidating Tarantula Nebulae is located around 1,61,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.

At 650 light-years away, the Helix Nebula is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth. Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO) SSPL ...

This image shows an example of a bipolar planetary nebula known as PN Hb 12 -- popularly known as Hubble 12 -- in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The striking shape of this nebula, reminiscent of ...

A nearby planetary nebula shines like a huge golden eye in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile. The image shows the Helix Nebula, which lies about 700 light-years from Earth in the ...

GOING OUT IN STYLE New insights into the death throes of sunlike stars help solve a decades-old mystery about planetary nebulae, such as the seven captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in this ...

The planetary nebula dissipates over ~20,000 years, with only the core — a white dwarf — remaining behind. In the center of a planetary nebula, the core of a now-deceased Sun-like star heats ...

A telescope in Hawaii has captured a spectacular new view on a distant nebula, revealing a glowing swirl of gas that is at the center of an unsolved mystery surrounding the nebula's birth.