This dying star lies about 3,300 light-years away. The famous Blinking Planetary Nebula (NGC 6826) in Cygnus offers a unique experience. The name comes from the odd optical effect you get when ...

Through 8-inch and smaller telescopes, the Blinking Planetary (NGC 6826) in Cygnus appears to blink when viewed with direct, and then averted, vision. To find this nebula, point your telescope 1.4 ...

the Blue Snowball Nebula (NGC 7662), M2-2, IC 3568, the Blinking Planetary Nebula (NGC 6826) and the Owl Nebula (NGC 3587). For four of these objects the research team derived a temperature ...

Gone are the days when the Ring Nebula looked sort of like a bagel, or a jelly doughnut, a massive astronomical blob holding the secrets of a dying star. The new images of the famous Ring Nebula ...

NASA recently used its James Webb Space Telescope to capture ethereal, detailed images of the Horsehead Nebula. The nebula, which NASA has called "one of the most distinctive objects in our skies ...