Even for astronomers who have gazed upon the same cosmic object over their whole career, new portraits of these celestial bodies from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have the power to delight ...

NASA's James Webb telescope captured a new image of the Helix Nebula in detail. The Helix Nebula is 650 light-years away from Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view highlights glowing knots of gas shaped by fast-moving stellar winds ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar ...

A nebula is a distinct luminescent part of the interstellar environment, and as far as these features go, the Helix Nebula is one of the most famous ones. It’s been closely studied by astronomers ...

The universe is full of spectacular sights, from aurora on Earth and Jupiter to the solar flares that cause them, to distant nebulae and stars captured by JWST in space and the VLT on the ground.

When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. This phase is known as a “planetary nebula,” and astronomers expect our Sun ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - This new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights comet-like knots, fierce ...