RIT Professor Joel Kastner leads a research team that determines the true three-dimensional structure of the iconic Ring ...

Dust cloud is thought to be the first debris disk to be seen around a planetary nebula. The planetary nebula WeSb 1 ...

The Twin Jet Nebula: The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. The Hourglass ...

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have seen the Ring Nebula. It’s a favourite amongst stargazers around the globe and ...

An international team of scientists has produced the clearest three-dimensional view yet of the Ring Nebula—one of the night ...

A planetary nebula is a glowing, expanding shell of ionized gas that forms when a star like our Sun dies. The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye ...

Since then, thousands more have been identified and described in surveys like the Abell Catalog of Planetary Nebulae and the Messier catalogue. Nebulae are mostly found within galaxies ...

When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. This phase is known as a "planetary nebula," and astronomers expect our Sun ...

“The processes governing the formation and evolution of such objects are imprinted in the planetary nebular gas surrounding them, and hence their physical and chemical structures are required to ...