It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

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The Flame Nebula is one of many gems included in the Orion constellation, and astronomers have now captured a new perspective of this striking celestial feature. While the Flame Nebula appears to live ...

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail. The breathtaking images show the hydrogen-rich ...

Many observatories have captured the Helix Nebula, but none in such detail as the Webb.

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A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...

A little more than 969 years ago—on July 4, 1054, to be precise—light reached Earth from one of the universe's most energetic and violent events: a supernova, or an exploding star. We now know that ...