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What Is a Nebula?
Through a telescope, they make the most jaw-dropping ... The closest nebula to Earth is the Helix Nebula, which is about 700 light years away from Earth. Space telescopes are invaluable for ...
The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...
This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope ...
Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.
In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.
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In previous decades, the Einstein X-ray Observatory and ROSAT telescopes detected highly energetic X-rays coming from the white dwarf at the center of the Helix Nebula named WD 2226-210 ...
Scientists have discovered a 'planet killer' capable of ripping worlds to shreds. The dying star may have already torn a planet the size of Jupiter apart, according to new research. A study using ...