This morning, set your sights on the first planetary nebula ever discovered: M27, the Dumbbell Nebula in Vulpecula.

Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in Hertfordshire, ...

Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness. Discovered by William ...

Vikas Chander from New Delhi, India The faint planetary nebula Abell 7 in Lepus the Hare has an overall spherical appearance ...

Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their ...

Identifying ancient Chinese astronomical events represents a fascinating aspect of modern astrophysics. Chinese astronomers ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

With an atmosphere, by mass, of primarily hydrogen (76 per cent) and helium (24 per cent), and by volume of 89 per cent ...

With just under 300 members, the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers group supports a love of stargazing in the region.