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

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

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

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

Here are some of the most beautiful pictures of the nebula, which were taken with the help of NASA's James Webb telescope.

Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all consist of interstellar gas ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

In today’s Optical Illusion series, we have a Cosmic Nebula drifting through deep space. It is just creating an illusion, in ...