The image Hubble captured was of the Egg Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,000 light-years away, according to NASA.

As the name suggests, the nebula looks like a yolk hidden inside an opaque egg white.

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

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar ...

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

The latest portrait of the Egg Nebula turns a fleeting stellar death into something almost architectural, revealing nested ...

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Helix Nebula from the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary ...

Hubble’s latest image reveals a young pre planetary nebula where a dying star expels dust and light. Why does this brief phase matter so much for understanding stellar evolution?

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, a bipolar protoplanetary nebula within the ...