One of the extreme northern sky’s most entertaining deep-sky objects, the Cat’s Eye Nebula in Draco (NGC 6543), is a planetary nebula with a high surface brightness. Discovered by William ...

Delicate wings of hot gas spew from a dying star, showcasing a stunning planetary nebula 2,500-3,800 light-years away. A metallic, jewel-like nebula formed by a massive red giant star swallowing ...

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 dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 times that of the sun.

Hubble was recently retrained on the Butterfly Nebula to capture a fuller light spectrum, revealing more about the gas dynamics in its colorful wings Caldwell 33, also known as the Eastern Veil ...

The four newly released images were recently taken by Hubble and include shots of Mars, the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899, a spiral galaxy labeled NGC 5335 and a small portion of the Rosette ...

The Orion Nebula, a local star-forming complex, is captured in breathtaking detail by James Webb. See the birth of stars and planetary systems. The Tarantula Nebula, which can be found in the ...

Distant planetary nebula NGC 2899 is also shown in a colorful moth-shaped orb, which is a result of an outflow of radiation and stellar winds from a dying, white dwarf star at the nebula’s heart ...