Rays of light beam from a mass of dust, glancing off banks of cloud 1,000 light years from Earth. The nebula glows not because its gases ionize but because the sun-like star at its center is nearing ...

For more than 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has circled Earth, reshaping humanity’s view of the universe. Orbiting about 340 miles above the planet at speeds near 17,000 miles per hour, Hubble ...

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, ...

The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

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

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

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