The Stingray Nebula is the youngest known planetary nebula. For half a century astronomers have witnessed its formation, and now…
Planetary nebulae are astronomy's gateway drug. Their eye-catching forms make us wonder what process created them, and what else is…
Some stars die a beautiful death, ejecting their outer layers of gas into space, then lighting it all up with…
Using the SOFIA telescope, a team of NASA astronomers have conducted the most detailed survey of the interior of the…
About 10,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, is a planetary nebula called NGC 5307. A planetary nebula is…
7500 light years away is an object that (almost) needs no introduction: Eta Carinae. If you haven't heard of it…
A planetary nebula is one of the most beautiful objects in the universe. Formed from the decaying remnants of a…
2,000 light years away, in the Orion constellation, lurks an eerie looking creature, made of glowing gas lit up by…
Saturn is an icon. There's nothing else like it in the Solar System, and it's something even children recognize. But…
Our universe is capable of some truly frightening scenarios, and in this case we have an apparent tragedy: two stars,…