A breathtaking new image captures the Crystal Ball Nebula, the remains of a dying star found in the constellation Taurus.
Crystal balls are typically used to gaze into the future, but this image of the Crystal Ball Nebula is actually a vision of ...
A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star ...
The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai'i, has captured NGC 1514, nicknamed the ...
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July 2026: Astro letters
Nebulous age In the Ask Astro column of the April 2026 issue is a photograph of planetary nebula NGC 6302. The caption says ...
A dying star has never looked so lovely. The Gemini North Telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak, Mauna Kea, captured the star ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is orbiting nearly 300 miles over the Earth. It has transformed our views of the universe since ...
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The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...
Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in ...
An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...
Of the approximately 3,000 planetary nebulae known in the galaxy, most are asymmetrical. But one planetary in Camelopardalis, just 7.5° from Polaris, is the poster child for symmetry. The Lemon Slice ...
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