A planetary nebula is a violent environment filled with intense UV radiation that is hostile and destructive toward molecular species. However, new observations from an international team of ...

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Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star in NGC 6072, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula. Credit: ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...

To understand how long a planetary nebula remains visible, we first need to understand why a planetary nebula is visible at all. When a solar-type star (one with a mass of 0.8 to eight times that of ...

There exists a place in the universe that is colder than the background radiation produced by Big Bang. Explore more about ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

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The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...