Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Helix Nebula from the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

This phase only lasts a few hundred years.

The Sun will die, and it’s going to be spectacular. In approximately five billion years, our star will exhaust the hydrogen ...

The latest portrait of the Egg Nebula turns a fleeting stellar death into something almost architectural, revealing nested ...

The image Hubble captured was of the Egg Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,000 light-years away, according to NASA.

New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.