The Crystal Ball Nebula was first discovered by the German-British astronomer Frederick Herschel in 1790. The nebula’s ...

Planetary nebulae like the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) are sort of like stellar obituaries. Though crystal balls supposedly reveal the future, the Crystal Ball Nebula tells us more about the past.

A breathtaking new image captures the Crystal Ball Nebula, the remains of a dying star found in the constellation Taurus.

This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to find the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra - a glowing shell of gas that offers a glimpse of our solar system’s distant ...

Astronomers have captured a breathtaking view of the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514), a cosmic spectacle 1,500 light-years ...

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The 8.1-meter Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai'i, has captured NGC 1514, nicknamed the ...

Astronomers have captured a striking new image of a dying star system resembling a milky white crystal ball. The image, ...

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, ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

Head out after moonset this evening to chase down planetary nebula NGC 3242 in Hydra. Popularly called the Ghost of Jupiter, this ball of softly glowing gas appears roughly as large on the sky as the ...

Astronomers have captured an image of one of the most geometrically perfect structures ever witnessed in deep space.