The Necklace Nebula (IPHASX J194359.5+170901 or PN G054.2–03.4), located approximately 1° east-southeast of Beta Sagittae, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagitta. Discovered in 2005 using ...
Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...
The Butterfly Nebula is among the most beautiful nebulae out there. It's a planetary nebula formed by an aging star throwing out layers of plasma before turning into a white dwarf. New observations ...
In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...
The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest infrared images to date of a zoomed-in portion of one of the most distinctive objects in our skies, the Horsehead Nebula. These observations ...