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.

Explore the stunning beauty of the Butterfly Nebula and discover what makes this deep-sky object so fascinating.

The Butterfly Nebula is changing, and astronomers are puzzled as to why these changes are occurring. Observations of this planetary nebula show dramatic changes in the butterfly’s ‘wings’ in ...

A Hubble image of NGC 6302, aka the "Butterfly Nebula," from June 2020. The star or stars at its center are responsible for the nebula's appearance. In their death throes, they have cast off ...

To get to the bottom of the weirdness, Balick and his colleagues compared Hubble Space Telescope images of the Butterfly Nebula from 2009 with more recent images captured in 2020.

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

NASA even made the Butterfly Nebula one of the first objects observed by Hubble. The wings are about three light-years across, and the nebula sits 3,500 light-years away from Earth.

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… ...

The Butterfly Nebula is created by a dying star, which still remains at the centre of the mass, with a dual-winged structure which earned it the nickname, ‘Butterfly’. Although it looks rather ...