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PM 1-322 - a cosmic object that looks like a purple-blue ghostly eye staring straight at Earth - was discovered in 2005 but scientists have only now learned what it is.
The Hubble Space Telescope - being operated jointly by NASA and ESA - has captured a beautiful nebula 1,370 light-years away.
The latest image of the planetary nebula NGC 2371/2 released by NASA last week shows the remnants of a dying star.
A giant and strange cosmic jellyfish was discovered by the Hubble space telescope, which according to NASA is the brilliant end of an old sun-like star.
Using ESO's Very Large telescope, international astronomers detect ionizing halo around planetary nebula IC 5148.
The team of astronomers at the Institute of Astrophysics in Andalucia (Spain) led by Martin Guerrero discovered a nebula
Scientists discover giant plasma spheres that are launched at lightning speed near a dying star.
The bright red eye nebula image is in the sights of the Spitzer space telescope of the US Aerospace Agency.
Although it can be brilliance for billions of years, our sun-like stars do not exist forever, and by the time of their death, their deaths have never been quiet, but mor…
Helix, the name of a nebula about 650 light-years from Earth, is dubbed
Astronomer Bill Snyder photographed the Dumbbell nebula, a cloud of dust of a star, showing us the prospect of our solar system's apocalypse.
A group of scientists in Australia and the United States, led by Professor Miroslav Filipović from the University of Western Sydney, discovered a new class of objects ca…
Let's see this as a case of the missing dwarf. A group of astronomers must perform interstellar field investigations. They had two suspects, signs of attack and assault,…