Planetary Nebula
What Is The Future Of Our Sun?
Who knows what the future holds for our Sun? Dr. Mark Morris, a professor of astronomy at UCLA sure knows.…
ALMA Warms Up the View of the Coldest Place In the Universe
Where is the coldest place in the Universe? Right now, astronomers consider the “Boomerang Nebula” to have the honors. Located…
This Planetary Nebula Comes With a Twist
From the Cat’s Eye to the Eskimo, planetary nebulae are arguably among the most dazzling objects in the Universe. These…
Endings and Beginnings – Magnetic Jets Shape Stellar Transformation
The incredible visual appearance of planetary nebulae are some of the most studied and observed of deep space objects. However,…
Hubble and NTT Capture Strange Alignment of Planetary Nebulae
While taking a look at more than a hundred planetary nebulae in our galaxy’s central bulge, astronomers using the NASA/ESA…
Looking Into The Green Eye Of Planetary Nebula IC 1295
Located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, the ESO's Very Large Telescope was busy using the…
Greek Observatory Probes Ancient Star
Some 2,500 years ago, a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus certainly made some very correct assumptions when he postulated the Sun…
Portrait Of NGC 5189: New Light On An Old Planetary Nebula
Stretching across three light years of space and located about 3,000 light years away in the direction of the constellation…
NGC 1846 – Hubble Reveals Peculiar Life And Death Of A Stellar Population
[/caption] About 160,000 light years away in the direction of southern constellation Doradus, sits a globular cluster. It's not a…
Graphenes In Spaaaaaace!
[/caption] And just where have your buckyballs been lately? More technically known as fullerenes, this magnetic form of carbon shows…