This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white ...

A white dwarf in the Helix Nebula may have destroyed a planet ... The data, however, suggest there may be a subtle, regular change in the X-ray signal every 2.9 hours, providing evidence for the ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have destroyed a neighboring planet, revealing a rare and ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light ... the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process," team leader Matthew De Furio of the ...

Webb's image of the Flame Nebula NASA, ESA, CSA ... wanted to learn about where the line is between a star and a brown dwarf. Just how much mass is necessary for an object to start fusion and ...

The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the Sun that exploded about 10,000 years ago, the Veil Nebula is situated about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This view ...

free-floating objects in the Flame Nebula, ranging from 0.5 to 3 times the mass of Jupiter. This study aimed to understand the formation of the smallest and faintest brown dwarfs. The team explored ...

NASA shared new details in the Flame Nebula revealing hotbed of young brown dwarfs ... NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been on the hunt for these brown dwarfs for decades. Brown Dwarf Study After ...

The James Webb Space Telescope zoomed in on extremely faint objects, called brown dwarfs, in the Flame Nebula. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / M. Meyer (University of Michigan) There's a class ...