It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...

At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant ... Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed to high density by gravity—as a white dwarf with temperatures over 180,000 ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

The glorious, billowing Southern Ring Nebula ... off by the red giant, a rapid mass-loss event that perhaps represented its ...

where a bright white dot (representing the pulsar) is connected to the red flame-like filament. The nebula's unique shape has formed over time from bubbles being blown through a steady wind of ...

Gift your sweetheart a bouquet of brilliant stars this Valentine's Day with a multi-telescope image of a gorgeous nebula.

creating massive shockwaves that extend over 62 billion miles (100 billion kilometres) into space. These shockwaves form the nebula's distinctive spider-leg-like arcs.