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

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

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

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

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

The team said they plan to do further studies to find out what exactly this iron bar is, where it came from and what it ...

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

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

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 ...