"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

A strange, elongated cloud of metal has appeared at the heart of one of the sky’s most familiar dead stars, and it may be the ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

Astronomers using JWST discover an ancient supernova from the first billion years of the universe ...

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...

NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...