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 ...

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 ...