Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the “habitable zone,” where a planet should be neither too hot nor ...
Many observatories have captured the Helix Nebula, but none in such detail as the Webb.
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Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months.
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs Within 40 Parsecs Using High-Resolution Spectra,” is what sets it apart.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...
A new Webb image captures a zoomed-in view of the iconic nebula, also known as the Eye of Sauron or Eye of God for its ...
Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.
Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...
The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...