"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...

Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...

Astronomers studying the famous Ring Nebula have uncovered an unexpected and puzzling feature: a massive cloud of iron atoms ...

The Ring Nebula’s iron bar may be just one of many, as astronomers search for similar structures in other nebulae ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star (out of frame in the closer new image) sheds its outer layers. As expelled ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Astronomers found an iron bar in the Ring Nebula that doesn't match any known stellar phenomenon. Scientists can't explain ...

Astronomers using JWST discover an ancient supernova from the first billion years of the universe ...