Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...

Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits our own Sun. Astronomers call it the Little Ghost Nebula, a planetary ...

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The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

The nebula is possibly being produced by a type of unstable star called a Wolf–Rayet star.

Stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions and even a visible nebula. Yes, a formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" – ...