Helix Nebula Shorts

Description: Helix Nebula on black background

Description: Digitally-enhanced HST image of the Helix Nebula.

Description: A Gaseous Envelope Expelled By a Dying Star

Description: A dark oval composition featuring a clear glass tilted and pouring a swirling, neon-colored double helix structure. The background depicts a starry cosmos with nebulae and falling meteors. Sparks erupt from the base of the helix.

Description: The Helix Nebula, also known as The Helix, is a large planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding, probably before 1824, this object is one of the closest to the Earth of all the bright planetary nebulae.

Description: Space Telescopy - Helix Nebula design by Rockett. Used by permission.

Description: A spaceship (from the cover of Science and Invention magazine, February 1923), flies away from the Helix Nebula (courtesy of NASA).

Description: Artist rendering of the famous Double Helix Nebula

Description: Space Telescopy Helix Nebula design

Description: Space Nebulae #3