There, stretching across the heart of the cloud of cosmic dust and gas, lies a giant, oddly linear, bar-shaped cloud of ...
A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...
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It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
Deep inside the Ring Nebula, astronomers have spotted a structure that should not exist: a narrow, glowing bar of iron ...
"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...
The Ring Nebula is a bright shell of gas in the constellation Lyra. It has long served as a textbook example of how stars ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images of the Helix Nebula. With the use of Webb’s NIRCAm, pillars ...