This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye.

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

Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector; Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand The Helix Nebula is said to exhibit some X-ray behavior that is similar to that of two other ...

Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector); Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J ... have picked up an unusual reading from the center of the Helix Nebula. They detected highly energetic X-rays coming from the white dwarf ...

The closest nebula to Earth is the Helix Nebula, which is about 700 light ... The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide ...

The Helix Nebula. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Univ Mexico/S. Estrada-Dorado et al.; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI (M. Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector ...

Meixner)/NRAO (T.A. Rector); Infrared: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson ... have picked up an unusual reading from the center of the Helix Nebula. They detected highly energetic X-rays coming from the white dwarf ...

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

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.

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to have been devoured by a dying star. Researchers have been detecting X ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X ...