Institute is unveiling one of the largest mosaic images of a celestial object ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The colorful ring-shaped Helix Nebula is Hubble’s latest picture-perfect ...
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 ...