A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

A new X-ray look at the mesmerizing Helix Nebula reveals an alleged planet killer: a white dwarf that might be the source of ...

The Helix Nebula, also known as Caldwell 63, is located 650 million light-years from Earth. It is the glowing remains of a dying star, much like our Sun.

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

A 40-year-old space enigma has been unraveled: a white dwarf star at the center of the Helix Nebula has been annihilating a nearby planet, triggering strange X-ray radiation, which unveiled the star's ...

Previously, researchers spent 10 years peering at the Flame Nebula, but couldn't find these objects in the ... without signs ...

How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this ... from the stars (similar to the distance of Voyager 1 from our sun), the magnetic field has a distinct 45-degree counter-clockwise kink.

In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star's life can be utterly ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

High-resolution ATCA observations allowed the Sun Yat-Sen team to resolve detailed ... Radio Observation of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in SNR G11.2-0.3, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.