Named Kohoutek 4-55, the nebula was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Planetary nebulae like Kohoutek 4-55 are the finale at the end of a giant star’s life. Once a red giant has shed its last ...

Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures stunning planetary nebulae — colourful cosmic clouds formed by dying stars, showcasing ...

Planetary nebulae are the spectacular final display at the end of a giant star's life. Once a red giant star has exhausted its available fuel and shed its last layers of gas, its compact core will ...

At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant. Because a red giant is ... which creates an expanding shell of gas called a planetary nebula. Within this nebula, the hot core of the star ...

Planetary nebulae are expanding shells of gas and dust that have been ejected from a star during the process of its evolution from a main sequence star into a red giant or white dwarf. They are ...

A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% of all stars active lives and traces the star’s transition from a red giant to a degenerate white dwarf. But, for years, scientists weren’t sure if the sun in ...

In celebration of 35 years spent in orbit around Earth, the Hubble team has released a set of four new images showing the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled the complex character of NGC 1514, a planetary nebula ... in the Orion Nebula. These enigmatic rogue gas giant pairs orbit each other at distances ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...