All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems ...

"We think this X-ray signal could be from planetary debris pulled onto the white dwarf, as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix Nebula." An artist's ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source ... a striking new image of the Helix Nebula. This picture, taken in ...

The Helix Nebula, which is classified as a planetary ... which shine brightly in the infrared,” NASA explained in a statement. “GALEX has picked out the ultraviolet light pouring out of ...

This discovery stems from four decades of X-ray observations of the Helix Nebula, located 650 light-years from Earth. The stream of X-ray radiation remained effectively constant over at least 20 ...

Washington, DC — The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293 ... planetary nebulas look diffuse and uniform through telescopes,” explained Joseph Hora of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics ...

She believes in the power of great journalism and art, and the magic of tardigrades. The Helix Nebula, which lies in the constellation of Aquarius, is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.

3. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, formed from the outer layers of a dying star similar to our Sun, located about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. 4. The images reveal ...

The Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) in Aquarius is a case in point. Back in the early 1970s when I was a fledgling skygazer, I was thumbing through a sky guide seeking targets for my 3-inch reflector.

The Helix Nebula does not naturally appear with the colors shown above; however, the tinting of the image is artificial. The picture's "Eye of God" appellation is a title coined by an admirer of ...

"We think this X-ray signal could be from planetary debris pulled onto the white dwarf, as the death knell from a planet that was destroyed by the white dwarf in the Helix Nebula," explained lead ...