Fluttering gas: this image of the NGC 2899 planetary nebula was captured using the FORS instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. (Courtesy: ESO) Move over Butterfly Nebula, there is ...

Structural changes within the Butterfly Nebula between 2009 and 2020. Various features have moved from the black regions into the white ones during the 11-year interval.

The ESO's Very Large Telescope delivers a fresh "cosmic gem." ...

The butterfly shaped nebula NGC 2346 started as two neighboring stars, each about twice as massive as the sun. Now, scientists have predicted how it will evolve over the next several millennia.

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from RIT and Green Bank Observatory ...

Now NGC 6302 is often called the Butterfly Nebula. Whatever name you give it, NGC 6302 is on a number of top 10 lists — no surprise, considering its visual magnitude of 10.1 makes it one of the ...

Officially known as W40, this red butterfly in space is a nebula, or a giant cloud of gas and dust. The “wings” of the butterfly are giant bubbles of gas being blown from the inside out by ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of familiar planetary nebulae using a different camera for the first time. The result is a stunning glimpse of both NGC 7027 and the Butterfly Nebula ...

A RARE Butterfly Nebula around 200 times hotter than the Sun has left scientists puzzled. Deep in the constellation Scorpius, the nebula hides a glimpse of our Sun’s final fate. The nebula, k… ...