An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula ...

What makes this discovery even more interesting is that ices are not known to survive in planetary nebulae.

If the spectrum truly matches a Wolf-Rayet type, it may belong to a rare class of planetary nebula central stars that ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

Astronomers combined Hubble's small-scale details of stellar death with Euclid's wide view of cosmic environments to take a closer look at the iconic Cat's Eye Nebula.

In 1995 NASA published images captured by the then nearly five-year-old Hubble Space Telescope of what the agency described ...

For this month's ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month, NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope is joined by ESA's Euclid to create a new ...

Oh what a beautiful cosmic web we weave! This little cosmic creepy crawler is the Red Spider planetary nebula (formal designation NGC 6537). It can be found about 4,000 light-years away in the ...

A planetary nebula (PN, plural PNe), is a type of emission nebula consisting of an expanding, glowing shell of ionized gas ejected from red giant stars late in their lives. The term "planetary nebula" ...

A dying star’s final breath creates a haunting, brain-shaped cosmic silhouette.

The space around our planet is filled with mysteries and wonders, many of which are brought to light with reassuring regularity by the space telescopes that keep watch of our surroundings. The most ...