NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedentedly sharp image of planetary nebula NGC 1514, revealing intricate details of its dying star. Located 1,500 light-years away, the nebula ...

In context: Astronomers have been observing the wheel-shaped nebula NGC 1514 for over three centuries. In 1790, William Herschel described it as the first deep-sky object that looked cloudy.

An ultraviolet image of the planetary nebula NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula. It is the nearest example of what happens to a star, like our own Sun, as it approaches the end of its life.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated Messier 57 (also known as NGC 6720), dubbed the Ring Nebula.

Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at planetary nebula NGC 1514, where a star is shedding copious amounts of gas into the universe as it gradually exhausts its fuel and ...

The inhabitants of this cluster are stellar sculptors, carving out a bubble within the nebula. NGC 346's hot, massive stars produce intense radiation and fierce stellar winds that pummel the ...

Behold the birthplace of stars in the NGC 3324 region, a vast star-forming area in the Carina Nebula. Marvel at the distorted galaxy shapes in MACS J0416.1-2403, a galaxy cluster 4 billion light ...

The doughnut chain is celebrating a photo of Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 which came into full-focus for the first time ever Emily Rella is a Food Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image of planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date thanks to its unique mid-infrared observations. Webb shows its rings as “fuzzy ...

The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in the Taurus constellation about 1,500 light-years from Earth, NASA said in a news release. It is a white dwarf star that was ...

NASA has released some stunning images of dying stars, offering the most in-depth view of the planetary nebula NGC 1514 to date. The images, taken from the James Webb Space Telescope, show one of ...

The rings, first detected in 2010 by Nasa’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), now appear as fuzzy clusters entangled in irregular patterns NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken the ...