At the heart of the double-lobed Toby Jug planetary nebula is the red-giant star HR3126, which at just 50 million years old, is considerably younger than the 4.6-billion-year-old sun.

A close-up of the Dragon's Egg Nebula, with two mismatched stars inside. ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU. Some 3,800 light-years away from Earth, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation ...

The dark nebula LDN 935, which resembles the figure of a Chinese Dragon, is known as the "Gulf of Mexico" – which is more easy to understand when seeing it from certain angles that make it ...

The nebula NGC 61646165, also known as the Dragon's Egg, a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937, is seen in this undated handout image taken with the VLT Survey ...

The nebula NGC 6164/6165, also known as the Dragon's Egg, a cloud of gas and dust surrounding a pair of stars called HD 148937, is seen in this undated handout image taken with the VLT Survey ...