Roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth, a dying star is producing temperatures colder than the void of deep space itself. The ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...

A planetary nebula is a violent environment filled with intense UV radiation that is hostile and destructive toward molecular species. However, new observations from an international team of ...

Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball ...

A newly released image of the Crystal Ball Nebula reveals the intricate beauty of a dying star and the unusual role its ...

After exhausting the nuclear fuel in their cores, stars with a mass of around 0.8 to eight times the mass of our Sun collapse to form dense and hot white dwarf stars. As this process occurs, the dying ...

This week's images journeyed from the shimmering Crystal Ball Nebula to the icy south pole of Mars, highlighting beauty and ...

NGC 6072 is a massive ball of dust and gas that was ejected by a dying binary star system about 3,300 light years away, in the southern constellation of Scorpius. A recent snapshot by the James Webb ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X-ray ...

Since it launched into space on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable instrument to astronomers in unraveling the mysteries of the universe. As it orbits the Earth from 340 ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...