Check out Astronomy.com’s interactive StarDome to see an accurate map of your sky. This tool will help you locate this week’s targets. This week’s small-telescope target is open cluster NGC 6067 in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI. This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula ...

Planetary nebulae, despite their name, have nothing to do with planets, but they are the beautiful, expanding shells of gas shed by dying stars similar to our Sun. The intricate and often colourful ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in ...

NGC 6072 is a massive ball of dust and gas that was ejected by a dying binary star system about 3,300 light years away, in the southern constellation of Scorpius. A recent snapshot by the James Webb ...

11. Nebula NGC 6072 November: This image shows Webb's view of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared. It highlights a complex scene of multiple outflows expanding out at different angles ...

Astronomers have revealed two remarkable images of nebula NGC 6072, showing how one object looks entirely different when observed through separate Webb instruments. Each view tells its own cosmic ...

The options on the "You Decide" ballot for Hubble observations include (top row, from left) NGC 6634, NGC 6072 and NGC 40, as well as (bottom row) Arp 274, NGC 4289 and NGC 5172. The Hubble team will ...

Chinese companies gain over 50% of Japanese TV market share for first time In the Japanese TV market, the market share of Chinese companies has surpassed 50% for the first time. On the 7th, Japan's ...

This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has reached the end of its sun-like life. Cocooned inside the nebula, within its ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.