When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Cat's Eye Nebula, photographed by Emil Andronic. | Credit: Emil Andronic. Amateur ...

Data sonification translates information collected by various NASA missions — such as the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope — into sounds. When a star like ...

Data collected with the Very Large Telescope shows a vast region of gas and dust resembling a celestial cat with a cluster of young stars right under its nose. When you purchase through links on our ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This landscape of "mountains" and "valleys" speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge ...

Check out that hypnotic glow from the center of this image — it’s the brightest central star in a planetary nebula that astronomers have seen so far. Why does the center of the Cat’s Eye Nebula shine ...

Each week, Astronomy magazine Senior Editor Michael E. Bakich, a master at explaining how to observe, posts a podcast about three or more objects or events you can see in the sky.

When a star like the Sun begins to run out of helium to burn, it will blow off huge clouds of gas and dust. These outbursts can form spectacular structures such as the one seen in the Cat's Eye nebula ...