The Skull Nebula is located in the constellation Cetus, which means "The Whale." "This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

A Hubble Space Telescope image of supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud Hubble Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 6543, the so-called "Cat's Eye Nebula" ...

Such stars eventually blow off the material of their outer layers, which creates an expanding shell of gas called a planetary nebula. Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% of all stars active lives and traces the star’s transition from a red giant to a degenerate white dwarf. But, for years, scientists weren’t sure if the sun in ...

However, two classes of celestial objects — double stars and planetary nebulae — break this rule. The reason is their sizes. Stars are point sources, and planetaries typically measure less ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula formally known as NGC 6543. According to NASA, "Observations suggest the star ...

Using more than 100 spectacular images from the Hubble Space Telescope, Cosmic Butterflies explores the beauty of the most mysterious celestial objects in space, planetary nebulae. The mystery begins ...

Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. Planetary health is an emerging field that seeks to harmonize human health with the health of our planet, creating solutions that ...

Plastic pollution exacerbates the impacts of all planetary boundaries, including climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss, a new paper shows. Ahead of the final negotiations of ...