The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Protoplanetary nebula IRAS 13208-6020 Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Protoplanetary nebulae are objects with extremely short life span (less than 10,000 years). This is one of the final stages ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

More protoplanetary nebula in the Monoceros constellation. It is part of a binary star system, where one member is ejecting the hydrogen gas in the post-AGB phase.

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble telescope captured a rare photo of the Calabash Nebula, a protoplanetary nebula formed from a dying star that's 1.4 light years long and approximately ...

The aptly named Egg Nebula, lying 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is a protoplanetary nebula. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com Forum!

At that time, the sun was surrounded by a disk of material known as a protoplanetary nebula that was gradually dissipating as it coalesced into the planets we know and love.

A dying star has been spotted coughing up a toxic mix of gases in a spectacular new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newly released image shows the Westbrook Nebula, also known as PK166 ...

NASA and the European Space Agency's Hubble telescope captured a rare photo of the Calabash Nebula, a protoplanetary nebula formed from a dying star that's 1.4 light years long and approximately ...