NGC 5189 is one of the more bizarre-looking planetary nebulae, appearing more like an exploding barred spiral galaxy than a shell of gas released from a dying Sun-like star. Until the 1960s ...

The images show the planetary nebula, known as NGC 5189, stretching out in a dramatic reverse "S" shape of bright colors. Planetary nebulae are stars similar to our sun yet in the final stages of ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope, astronomers have found that the planetary nebula NGC 5189 harbors a carbon-enriched X-ray-emitting hot bubble. The discovery, presented in a paper published ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope, astronomers have found that the planetary nebula NGC 5189 harbors a carbon-enriched X-ray-emitting hot bubble. The discovery, presented in a paper published ...

Actually a complex planetary nebula around a dying star," writes NASA. This is planetary nebula NGC 5189, created when a star around the mass of the sun sheds its outer layers near the end of its ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the end of the year with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of familiar planetary nebulae using a ...

However, the term nebula still refers to a cloud, specifically of interstellar dust and gas. The leftovers of a star that went supernova are called planetary ... Nebula (NGC 7000) in the ...