Hubble has captured UGC 8091, a festive bundle of lights. Located about seven million light-years away in the Virgo constellation, it’s also known as GR 8.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...
Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory ... Shown here are three images of Plate H335H as well as three images of a ...
Astronomers warn that proposed changes to the space observatory's operational budget could decrease the amount of ...
New U.S. Postal Service stamps released last week feature images captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy NGC 2566, which sits 76 million light-years away in the constellation ...
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...