A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying white dwarf that may have taken a planet out with it. The observation was ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Previous observations of Pa 30 revealed a white dwarf star at the center of the nebula. The superdense object is all that ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514, also known as the crystal ball nebula, came into complete ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A newly processed Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula reveals a 9.5 light-year-tall pillar of cold gas and dust, shaped by radiation and winds from young stars ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

It's believed that the solar system was formed when something, possibly the shock of an exploding star or a stellar ... This big squeeze created the Solar Nebula, a giant cloud of material that ...