A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that's lasted over 40 years," said researcher Sandino Estrada-Dorado.

For over 40 years, astronomers have been puzzled by strange X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf. Now, they may ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

NASA’s James Webb Telescope uncovers a ‘star factory’ inside the Flame Nebula, offering new insights into star formation and ...

The Helix Nebula is a so-called planetary nebula, which is the late stage of a star that has ejected its outer layers of gas and left behind a dimmer and smaller ember known as the white dwarf.

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that’s lasted over 40 years." Using NASA's Chandra observatory and Europe's XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers may have solved a 45-year-old ...

A nice catch This week’s first large-scope object is planetary nebula NGC 2867 in Carina the Keel. Sir Patrick Moore included this object in his Caldwell catalog as number 90. You’ll find this ...

ABSTRACT Up to now, 10 planetary nebulae have been regarded as halo planetary nebulae (halo PNe). We obtained low‐ and moderate‐dispersion spectra of the spatially resolved halo planetary nebula H4‐1 ...

The Helix Nebula is a so-called planetary nebula, which is the late stage of a star that has ejected its outer layers of gas and left behind a dimmer and smaller ember of a star known as a white ...