The glorious, billowing Southern Ring Nebula is the cocoon of a dying star — and it has a secret. Scientists have found this nebula to exhibit a double-ring structure that evidences not one, but ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula as a glowing green and purple eye, presenting the familiar astronomical object in an altogether new light. Aside from its stunning aesthetic ...

ESA / Webb / NASA / CSA / M. Barlow / N. Cox / R. Wesson The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured extraordinarily detailed images published today of the Ring Nebula. The gaseous cloud, also ...

The new picture, taken by the Hubble Space telescope, suggests the Nebula is actually cylindrical in shape and that from Earth we see it almost on end, so it looks like a circle. The Nebula was first ...

Planetary nebulae have been studied for centuries, but astronomers are getting new looks and a better understanding of the structures and compositions of these gaseous remnants of dying stars thanks ...

EVERY friend of astronomical research has learned with great pleasure the news that Prof. Wolf, of Heidelberg, has succeeded in proving by spectrum photography that the well-known ring nebula in Lyra ...

Nestled some 2,500 light-years away in the Ring Nebula, a star is in the last throes of its life. And as it dances with a companion star, at probably the same distance apart as Earth is to Pluto, the ...

Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Scientists have discovered a rare object called the Blue Ring Nebula, a ring of hydrogen gas with a star at its center. The properties of this system suggest it is the remnant of two stars meeting ...

New images from NASA's Hubble telescope reveal that the Ring Nebula is more complex than we knew — it's not a bagel, but a jam doughnut. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of the Ring Nebula. The images were released Thursday by an international team of astronomers, including three from the Canadian Western ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a stunning portrait of the Ring Nebula, a well-known example of a planetary nebula that reveals intricate structures marking the final stages of a dying ...