Using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) and the Manchester Echelle Spectrograph (MES), astronomers from Turkey and ...

A fresh investigation of the planetary nebula NGC 6563 has revealed that its most unusual structures are far older than the ...

Astronomers have used the Gemini North telescope to capture a new image of a planetary nebula nicknamed the Crystal Ball ...

To understand how long a planetary nebula remains visible, we first need to understand why a planetary nebula is visible at all. When a solar-type star (one with a mass of 0.8 to eight times that of ...

Stars like our sun end their lives as white dwarfs. Some of them are surrounded by a planetary nebula consisting of gas ejected by the dying star shortly before its death. An international research ...

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In general, planetary nebulae (PNe) are expanding shells of gas and dust that have been ejected from a star during the process of its evolution from a main sequence star into a red giant or white ...

A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our galaxy has been announced. The announcement was made by a team of three astronomers ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

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 ...