What’s new — The image reveals a central star surrounded by a bright, neon green nebula that encompasses the remains of a rare stellar merger between two white dwarf stars.

Space photos of the week, May 15 - 21, 2016. In this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), light from blazing blue stars energizes the gas left over from the stars’ recent formation.

Neon from ocean floor to deep space. To figure out which of the three competing ideas on planet formation and delivery of gases was correct, Williams and Mukhopadhyay accurately measured the ratios of ...

Smile Big Texas hosted the Pride on the Plains event on Saturday, which saw more than 3,600 people celebrate and enjoy live performances, vendors, a pageant, and food and drink on a hot June day.

The outer Earth grew largely from material added by impacts from planetesimals, rather than by capture of dust grains from the solar nebula — or at least that's the inference from the latest ...

Scientists have homed in on a popular cosmic object, and are now seeing it in a whole new neon light. The Ring Nebula, also called Messier 57, is a cloud of gas and dust shed from a dying star ...

It's also known as NGC 2359, an emission nebula over 30 light-years across. ... Use these social-bookmarking links to share Hot neon lights of Thor's helmet glow in the dark.

Previous researchers established the neon isotope ratio for the "solar nebula" (early rapid formation) model with data from the Genesis mission, which captured particles of the solar wind.

The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle, based on neon isotopes from the depths of the Earth and deep space.