Approximately 90 percent of all stars in the universe will turn into a planetary nebula, which could also happen to the sun when it dies in about 5 billion years. A team of international astronomers ...

The Butterfly Nebula was first discovered in the 1970s, but it's core had been obscured by dust (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, K. Noll, J) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered through a dense ...

May 7 (UPI) --When the sun finally dies, 10 billion years from now, it will become a planetary nebula, according to a team of scientists at the University of Manchester. Some 90 percent of all stars ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula as a glowing green and purple eye, presenting the familiar astronomical object in an altogether new light. Aside from its stunning aesthetic ...

The Sun, a G2V main-sequence star approximately 4.6 billion years old, is currently undergoing hydrogen fusion. Stellar evolution, primarily determined by a star's mass, dictates that the Sun will ...

New time-lapse images of the beautiful Butterfly Nebula come closer to explaining its spectacular strangeness. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of the Ring Nebula, also known as M57, which is a planetary nebula formed by the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The nebula is located ...

No one is writing its obituary just yet, but scientists have long known that the sun will die — and now we know what will happen next. New research by an international team of astronomers shows that ...

Located atop Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes, the Gemini South telescope is one-half of the International Gemini ...