Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos ...
Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.
The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup. The Bullseye galaxy’s official name is LEDA 1313424. It’s easy ...
Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...
Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...
The $488 million observatory is set to launch at the end of this month on a two-year mission to map the entire celestial sky.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust ... It is part of a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud, located 160,000 light-years away ...
Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the ...