Dying Star Creates Fantasy Sculpture Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon In this detailed view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the so-called Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating...
Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 - Anuradha Menon This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are...
The Crab Supernova Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus. The nebula was first observed...
New photographs released by NASA have captured images of a vast stellar formation resembling a human hand reaching across space. The image, taken by...
"Eye of God" made of Comet's Dust Thursday, February 1st, 2007 - Iddo Genuth Scientists using the Spitzer space telescope discovered that the dust surrounding the Helix nebula, also known as the "eye...