This little gem in a wide field of stars is the Little Dumbbell Nebula, the faintest object in the Messier catalogue. Astrophotographer Ron Brecher took this image earlier this year from Guelph, ...

Stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions and even a visible nebula. Yes, a formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" – ...

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Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

Stargazers can see the "Dumbbell Nebula" in the night sky in August The nebula will appear within a pattern of stars known as the Summer Triangle With a six-planet alignment already coming up Aug. 10, ...

(CNN) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the glowing gas ejected from a dying star, which in this case happens to resemble a “cosmic dumbbell.” (CNN) — The Hubble Space ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope commemorated its 34th year since its launch with a magical view of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, located approximately 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.

While Perseus is best noted for its wealth of clusters, including the famous Double Cluster, it also harbors the exotic and diminutive beauty M76 — one of only four planetary nebulae in Charles ...

Astronomy magazine's Editor Emeritus, Dave Eicher, encourages viewers to observe Messier object 27 (M27). M27, commonly known as the Dumbbell Nebula, is the subject of the presented astronomical ...

The nebula's shell is expanding at rates equivalent to traveling from Earth to the moon in just over seven minutes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.