Dave Doctor from Las Cruces, New Mexico Sharpless 2–200 in Cassiopeia is a planetary nebula - the remains of a dying star ...

The Dumbbell Nebula (M27), discovered in 1764, is the first planetary nebula identified and is notable for its brightness and distinctive shape. Its appearance, described variously as a dumbbell, ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

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, ...

Oh what a beautiful cosmic web we weave! This little cosmic creepy crawler is the Red Spider planetary nebula (formal designation NGC 6537). It can be found about 4,000 light-years away in the ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope continues to capture the amazing visuals that will amaze you. These pictures here show different ...

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

(Please attempt/guess/answer the poll before reading the 'spoilered' calculations.) A question I've pondered, on occasion, is how much "mass" is in a 'planetary nebula' (the kind of nebula which ...

Photoshop tutorial showing a quick, effective way to make a cool, planetary nebula in deep space and a fiery explosion ...