The nebula was formed when a star went supernova 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits our own Sun. Astronomers call it the Little Ghost Nebula, a planetary ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Draco.

A deep-space photo of the Jellyfish Nebula in Gemini shows a brain-like structure, capturing the supernova remnant IC 443 and surrounding interstellar gas and stars.

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

New images has been revealed of one of the sky's most beautiful sights - the Cat's Eye nebula - in extraordinary detail. The ...

By merging the razor focus of the Hubble Space Telescope with the wide-field perspective of the Euclid mission, two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes have captured a new look at the Cat’s ...