"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by ...

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

The Ring Nebula is a sight to behold. Located in the constellation Lyra, this kaleidoscopic doughnut of gas is the dying echo ...

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cloud in the shape of a bar in the Ring Nebula. Also called Messier 57, the nebula is ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

The Ring Nebula’s iron bar may be just one of many, as astronomers search for similar structures in other nebulae ...

A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the iconic Ring Nebula by a European team led by astronomers ...

The iron cloud — roughly 3.7 trillion miles long — was spotted using the new WEAVE instrument on Spain’s William Herschel ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...