This dramatic burst of colour shows a cosmic object with an equally dramatic history. Enveloped within striking, billowing clouds of gas and dust that form a nebula known as M1-67, sits a bright star ...

Hen 2-427 is considered a Wolf-Rayet class star. Such stars were named after astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum (the ...

India, Feb. 13 -- A breathtaking new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a rare cosmic pairing: the powerful star Hen 2-427, also known as WR 124, and the glowing nebula M1-67 that ...