This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537—the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), Webb has revealed ...

Stars like our Sun turn into red giants as they run out of hydrogen to fuse at their core. As the star continues to age, it will blow out its outer layers until the only thing that remains is an ...

Hubble observations have revealed huge waves sculpted in the Red Spider Nebula. This warm and windy planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars in the Universe and its powerful stellar winds ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are ...

Oh what a beautiful cosmic web we weave! This little cosmic creepy crawler is the Red Spider planetary nebula (formal designation NGC 6537). It can be found about 4,000 light-years away in the ...