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

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

Planetary nebulae are the remnants of stars roughly one-to-eight times the size of the sun surrounded by hot gas lit up by ultraviolet radiation. Kastner hopes that through a comprehensive campaign of ...

MR. J. H. REYNOLDS delivered his presidential address to the Hoyal Astronomical Society on February 14, taking as his subject the “Galactic Nebulae”. At the moment, it may be said that the ...

Planetary nebulae form when red giant stars expel their outermost layers as they run out of helium fuel — becoming hot, dense white dwarf stars that are roughly the size […] ...

The world has gotten an early preview of the Rubin Observatory's first images, which include stunning snaps of spiraling ...

ABSTRACT.We analyze the spatial orientation of a homogenous sample of 440 elongated Planetary Nebulae (PNe) in order to determine the orientation of their apparent major axis with respect to the Milky ...

Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the most jaw-dropping beauty shots. But what is a nebula in the first place?

Planetary nebulae, which form at the end of a star’s lifetime, are heated by the faded star which remains as a white dwarf in their centers. Other nebulae, like the Orion nebula, ...

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...