Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

It looks as if the universe is watching Earth; this is the deep field image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), known as "the eye of the universe." A deep field image refers to a photograph taken by ...

An unusual x-ray signal from the Helix Nebula, first detected in 19180, could stem from a star destroying a nearby planet.

The Circinus West molecular cloud has been captured by the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera (DECam). DECam is mounted on the ...

One amateur astronomer is on a quest to identify every object in the catalog of Lynds’ dark nebulae. Tag along for the ...

NASA, JPL-Caltech, Kate Su (Steward Obs, U. Arizona) et al. In their post, NASA offers some… actual science about why the Helix Nebula is the way it is. Although we still like cursed with dark ...

Citations S. Estrada-Dorado et al. Accretion onto WD 2226-210, the central star of the Helix Nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Here’s how it works. A dark nebula known as LDN 1622, captured using the Mosaic-3 instrument on the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in Arizona.

Yet despite LDN 1165's lack of color, some of the nebula may actually be full of activity. Dark nebulae can sometimes form stellar nurseries, in which stars are born.