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This planetary nebula's simple, graceful appearance is thought to be due to perspective: our view from Earth looking...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer is of the planetary nebula NGC 7293 also known as the...
This ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows NGC 3242, a planetary nebula frequently referred to...
Researchers using NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy SOFIA have captured infrared images of the...
This trio of ghostly images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of dying stars called...
This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape...
NASA Hubble Space Telescope captured this sharpest view yet of the most famous of all planetary nebulae: the Ring...
This is a photograph of giant twisters and star wisps in the Lagoon Nebula. This superb Hubble Space Telescope (HST)...
This colorful bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It is located in...
The Dumbbell nebula, also known as Messier 27, pumps out infrared light in this image from NASA Spitzer Space...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope finds a delicate flower in the Ring Nebula, as shown in this image. The outer shell of...
This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL-2688 and located roughly 3,000 light-years from us, was taken in red...
An infrared photo of the Small Magellanic Cloud taken by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope is shown in this artist...
Taken by the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), this image of MyCn18, a...
NGC 7293, better known as the Helix nebula, displays its ultraviolet glow courtesy of NASA GALEX. The Helix is the...
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured the Cat’s Eye nebula, or NGC 6543, is a well-studied example of a planetary...
SCI2012_0003: SOFIA mid-infrared image of the planetary nebula Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), also known as the Butterfly...
Astronomers using NASA Hubble Space Telescope stumbled upon a mysterious object that grudgingly yielded clues to its...
This is an artist concept, based on data from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, of graphene, buckyballs and C70...
This composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images combined with the...
The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae are...
These eerie, dark, pillar-like structures are actually columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust that are...
This image of a dying star, protoplanetary nebula IRAS22036+5306, containing strange, complex structures may help...
This image composite shows two views of a puffy, dying star, or planetary nebula, known as NGC 1514. At left is a...