Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, ...

Stars like our sun end their lives as white dwarfs. Some of them are surrounded by a planetary nebula consisting of gas ejected by the dying star shortly before its death. An international research ...

Orion is about as familiar as a patch of sky gets. Visible without a telescope, studied by nearly every major instrument ever pointed at the heavens, mapped and catalogued across centuries of ...

An international team led by Juan Diego Soler at the University of Vienna used two of the world's most powerful radio ...

Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star interacting with the material cast off by the central dying star in NGC 6072, creating the abnormal appearance of this planetary nebula. Credit: ...

Merrill’s Star is a high-velocity Wolf-Rayet star discovered in the constellation Sagitta the Arrow in 1938 by American astronomer Paul W. Merrill. As a Wolf-Rayet star — a kind of massive star with ...

A close-up of the Dragon's Egg Nebula, with two mismatched stars inside. ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU Some 3,800 light-years away from Earth, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Norma, ...

A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core forms and begins gathering dust and gas, creating ...