"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of gas and dust shaped by a dying star in the Helix Nebula, ...

Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...

The Ring Nebula’s iron bar may be just one of many, as astronomers search for similar structures in other nebulae ...

Astronomers studying the famous Ring Nebula have uncovered an unexpected and puzzling feature: a massive cloud of iron atoms ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star (out of frame in the closer new image) sheds its outer layers. As expelled ...

In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out in the evening sometime soon and ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...