After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The ...
This color-composite image of the Helix Nebula was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager, an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2 meter Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope ...
The signal, which scientists have been working to untangle for more than 40 years, is thought to be the "death knell" of an exoplanet destroyed by a star in the Helix Nebula. Astronomers first ...
In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.
Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...