Tag Archive for 'Protoplanetary nebula'

This Hubble image shows the Egg Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Bruce Balick, UWashington.

Hubble Captures Clearest View Yet of Egg Nebula

Feb 10, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals for the first time the delicate interplay of cosmic dust and stellar winds in the Egg Nebula,...

This image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope shows the protoplanetary disk around SU Aur. Image credit: ESO / Ginski et al.

SPHERE Spots Giant Planet-Forming Disk around Young Star

Feb 23, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of the 5-million-year-old protoplanetary system SU...

This Hubble image shows a small part of Caldwell 99, a dark nebula located 600 light-years away in the southern constellation of Crux. Image credit: NASA / ESA / R. Sahai, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Gladys Kober, NASA & Catholic University of America.

Hubble Spots Beautiful Protoplanetary Nebula in Caldwell 99

Feb 11, 2021 by News Staff

NASA has released a photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of a small region on the edge of the dark nebula Caldwell 99. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image shows the Calabash Nebula, which lies in the constellation of Puppis, about 5,000 light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Space Telescope Spots ‘Cosmic Calabash’

Jan 30, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

A stunning new image of a little-known protoplanetary nebula, the Calabash Nebula, has been captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble...