Photoshop tutorial showing a quick, effective way to make a cool, planetary nebula in deep space and a fiery explosion complete with a planetary inferno. Subscribe! subscribe ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive ...
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: ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just unveiled a new image of the Butterfly Nebula, and it isn’t just beautiful—it ...
Why it's so special: The death of a star can be the catalyst for one of the most beautiful sights in the universe. To see that, look no further than the latest images from the James Webb Space ...
Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...
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" ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the ...
IC 3568, the Lemon Slice Nebula, is located in the constellation Camelopardalis, possessing a high declination of 82.5°. Visually appearing bluish due to ionized oxygen and nitrogen, the nebula ...