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 ...

When you look through the Odyssey Pro's eyepiece ... nearly colorless stars I have seen in images from other smart telescopes. The Helix Nebula in Aquarius is a planetary nebula, formed when ...

Since they were first detected over four decades ago, unusually powerful x-ray emissions originating from the site of a dying star called the Helix Nebula have proved an enigma astronomers. Now, we ...

It was one of the first objects that I imaged with my own telescope ... the Helix Nebula aren’t new news though since they were first detected in 1980, have finally been identified through ...

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

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.

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 ...

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering the nebula's eerie interior bluish glow. The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across and resides 7,100 ...

"We might have finally found the cause of a mystery that’s lasted over 40 years." Using NASA's Chandra observatory and Europe's XMM-Newton spacecraft, astronomers may have solved a 45-year-old ...

When you buy through links on our articles ... This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on the left, while the two insets ...

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 ...

The signal, which scientists have been working to untangle for more than 40 years, is thought to be the "death knell" of an exoplanet destroyed by a star in the Helix Nebula. Astronomers first ...