The Lagoon Nebula (M8) in Sagittarius appears highest around 3 A.M., when it soars above the Teapot of Sagittarius.

The Hourglass Nebula lies in the constellation Cygnus ... comments and your name and location to managing editor Tariq Malik at [email protected]. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+.

StarStuff image of the week The sands of time are running out for the Sun-like star at the centre of this spectacular planetary nebula called the Engraved Hourglass Nebula MyCn18. MyCn 18 is a ...

The beautiful hourglass-shaped nebula Sharpless 2-106 shines with brilliant colors in this new image from the Gemini North telescope. Giant star S106IR lies near the waist of the hourglass.

He also subsequently coined a second nickname when he wrote it is “shaped something like an hourglass.” Others have tagged it the Apple Core Nebula and the Bow Tie Nebula. Located in the ...

A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts as a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an hourglass shape. See the full advent calendar here, where a new image will be revealed each day until ...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) The Hubble Space Telescope shared an image of the Hourglass Nebula The nebula was formed by a dying red giant star The shape of the ...

is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. The Hourglass Nebula: This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, taken with the Wide Field and ...

This system, known as R Aquarii for its apparent location in the large zodiacal ... "While the large hourglass nebula expands in a regular way, the jet shows an extremely complex behaviour ...

A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts as a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an hourglass shape. See the full advent calendar here, where a new image will be revealed each day until ...

LBN 483 is a prime example of this process. The bipolar outflows from the two forming stars have carved the nebula into its distinctive hourglass or butterfly-like shape. The nebula’s bright ...