NGC 5189 is one of the more bizarre-looking planetary nebulae, appearing more like an exploding barred spiral galaxy than a shell of gas released from a dying Sun-like star. Until the 1960s, this ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the end of the year with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and ...

OF the objects in the southern hemisphere which are generally classified as planetary nebulae 1 undoubtedly the two with the most strikingly anomalous forms are NGC 6302 (refs. 2, 3) and NGC 5189 ...