Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

Explore how NASA's James Webb Space Telescope unveiled new secrets of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6072. Discover the latest ...

A recent snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope captured the structure and shape of NGC 6072, which was described as 'a ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the ...

There's so much more to see than the famous Messier Catalog. Here's a list of gorgeous NGC star clusters to observe on the ...

Captured two amazing nebulae in one night right from the city lights of Tokyo! Two setups, two targets — deep sky from the ...

Planetary nebulae are the remnants of stars roughly one-to-eight times the size of the sun surrounded by hot gas lit up by ultraviolet radiation. Kastner hopes that through a comprehensive campaign of ...

Other nebulae, like the Orion nebula, are the clouds of gas which enveloped a denser region where new stars could form. Those new stars then heat the surrounding gas, both heating and sculpting it ...

Walter A. Weidmann, Rubén J. Díaz, The Spatial Orientation of Planetary Nebulae within the Milky Way, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 120, No. 866 (11 April 2008), pp.

MR. J. H. REYNOLDS delivered his presidential address to the Hoyal Astronomical Society on February 14, taking as his subject the “Galactic Nebulae”. At the moment, it may be said that the ...