SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviewsBad Astronomy All Posts Tagged planetary nebula Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago The first JWST images of the infrared sky are here and they do *not* disappoint My God. It’s full of… the Universe. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago What happens when a star engulfs its planets? Hint: Bad things, to both. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago After a fiery embrace, some stars undergo metamorphosis Water fountain stars recently — or still are — eating their binary companions. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago DUDE, where's my carbon star? V Hydrae is dying and blowing smoke rings. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago Beautifully dying stars and the scale of the Universe By Phil Plait | 1 year ago A star that lived, then died, then lived again, then died for real By Phil Plait | 1 year ago So what the heck is StDr 56? By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The rise and rapid fall of the Stingray Nebula By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Memories of the Blue Snowball By Phil Plait | 1 year ago Load More
Astronomers find the death cry of a star in a cluster long ago and not so very far away The oldest planetary nebula ever seen is in the star cluster M37. By Phil Plait | 1 week ago
The first JWST images of the infrared sky are here and they do *not* disappoint My God. It’s full of… the Universe. By Phil Plait | 2 months ago
What happens when a star engulfs its planets? Hint: Bad things, to both. By Phil Plait | 3 months ago
After a fiery embrace, some stars undergo metamorphosis Water fountain stars recently — or still are — eating their binary companions. By Phil Plait | 4 months ago
DUDE, where's my carbon star? V Hydrae is dying and blowing smoke rings. By Phil Plait | 5 months ago
