A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

The Helix Nebula has long been a favorite target for backyard telescopes, a pale blue eye staring out from the constellation Aquarius. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has turned that familiar ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of ...

The joint NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope recently observed the remnants of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The resulting colorful cloud is known as ...

Cepheid stars have predictable brightness changes linked to their periods. This period-brightness relationship lets astronomers calculate a Cepheid's distance. Hubble found a Cepheid in the Andromeda ...

This season might be the perfect time to try to see one of the prettiest sights in the night sky. Winter is the best time to spot the Rosette Nebula, a beautiful star-forming region 5,000 light-years ...

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

This celestial wonder sits unassumingly near the head of the northern constellation Cepheus the King within 20° of the North Celestial Pole. Despite its low overall magnitude, the Bow-tie Nebula (also ...