The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Nebulae run the full gamut of a star's life, ...

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

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One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness. Discovered by William Herschel in ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “Eye of Sauron.” It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located ...