A nebula that, instead of being round, takes the shape of a giant egg: this atypical silhouette is the work of a duo of aging ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest image ever taken of the Egg Nebula, a structure roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth where a dying star is shedding its outer layers in dramatic ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

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

Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented look inside a butterfly nebula, revealing matter around a dying star. The international space community, consisting of NASA, ...

Planetary nebula are some of nature's most stunning visual displays. The name is confusing since they're the remains of stars, not planets. But that doesn't detract from their status as objects of ...

The Horsehead Nebula, one of the most famous formations of the cosmos, has just been revealed in a stunning new light. Here's what to know about the Horsehead Nebula, and what NASA says are "the ...

Smack dab in the Ring Nebula, astronomers have stumbled upon a massive bar-shaped structure of iron that had previously eluded prior observations, potentially revealing the ghost of a vaporized world.