An unusual x-ray signal from the Helix Nebula, first detected in 19180, could stem from a star destroying a nearby planet. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and ...

To better understand Jupiter’s primordial stages, researchers turned to the tiniest of the planet’s 92 known moons. Almathea and Thebe respectively circle Jupiter at slightly tilted orbits roughly 112 ...

The radiation probably originates from the scorching-hot wreckage left behind by a giant planet’s annihilation. This discovery stems from four decades of X-ray observations of the Helix Nebula ...

Unlike diffuse emission nebula, these have a more clearly defined appearance, usually circular in shape, which reminded William Herschel of a planet when ... and dust that make up a nebula.

Now, data from two X-ray telescopes, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, has uncovered the grim fate of a planet there. The Helix Nebula is called a ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of a hefty planet tracing ... rung-like features that make the Red Rectangle look like a spider web, unlike any other known nebula. These rungs may have arisen ...

As luminous as these regions may be, the white dwarfs at their center are extremely dim, making ... case of a planet seen to be destroyed by the central star in a planetary nebula." ...

And since that radiation is so powerful, it can control the flow of the gasses created during star birth, making the nebula the beautiful iconic image we’ve seen captured so many times.

The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela ... one would revolutionize what we thought was possible” for star and planet formation. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have ...