"We always knew planetary nebulae were pretty. What we see now is spectacular," Albert Zijlstra, an astrophysics professor at the University of Manchester, said in a statement about the new image.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of familiar planetary nebulae using a ...

Something is amiss in the Butterfly Nebula. When astronomers compared two exposures of this planetary nebula that had been taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009 and 2020, they saw dramatic ...

Stars like the sun end their lives as highly compact white dwarfs, but as they shrink down into this phase they release clouds of gas which form a so-called "planetary nebula". This is a rather ...

The snapshots show the planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra in unprecedented detail. In addition to the main ring, halo and the interior filled with hot gas, the star that ejected the ...

Ionized atoms ejected from a dying star form the bright swirling clouds of this planetary nebula. Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like ...

However, the term nebula still refers to a cloud, specifically of interstellar dust and gas. The leftovers of a star that went supernova are called planetary nebula. Why? Their blue-green look is ...

But for fatalists the world over, gazing into this planetary nebula some 2,500 light-years away may not have inspired celebratory feelings — rather, a foreboding of what's to come. Perhaps Joel ...

A planetary nebula like this one forms when a dying star releases an outer layer of gas, which creates a the colorful, shell-like structure that sets planetary nebulae apart. The telescope allowed ...

While most planetary nebulae are small and beautiful, there is no doubt that the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) is something special. Found by Charles Messier in July 1764, M27 was the first planetary ...

The colors come from the presence of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. Dubbed the Spirograph Nebula for its resemblance to drawings from a cyclical drawing tool, planetary nebula IC 418 shows poorly ...

The image was taken from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope revealing never before seen details of the Southern Ring planetary nebula. In July 2022, The James Webb Space Telescope took an image ...