The Spirograph Nebula gets its name from the microstructure inside the spherical nebula. Anyone who played with that toy will remember the fascinating designs it made using ellipses. IC 418’s ...

The nebula is located in the constellation Scorpius. IC 418 is better known as the Spirograph Nebula. It is located 2,000 light-years away from our planet and can be found in the constellation Lepus.

Hubble scientists snapped the picture of the Spirograph Nebula while conducting a survey of planetary nebulas, a celestial census that could shed light on the fate of our sun. When ordinary stars ...

In fact, there is an entire planetary nebula called 'The Spirograph Nebula'. The official name of the nebula, located in the Lepus constellation, is IC 418. It was called 'The Spirograph Nebula ...

Set aglow by ultraviolet radiation pouring out from the core of the aging star, this gaseous nebula—called IC 418—resembles a “spirograph,” the pattern produced by the familiar drawing toy.

Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The Spirograph Nebula: Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC ...

MyCn18, a young planetary nebula situated 8,000 light-years away. Photo Credit: NASA This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever.

When a British engineer named Denys Fisher introduced the first Spirograph set at a toy fair in 1965, he tapped into a demographic of non-artists who really wanted to create art. Those sprocketed ...

Space is bejeweled with the stunning IC 418, a planetary nebula with purple and orange coloring enveloping a bright white core. The nebula lies close to 2,000 light-years from Earth on the way to ...