On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...
A Distant Supernova Discovery This latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope features a distant galaxy located about 600 ...
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is still trucking along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending ...
From vibrant star-forming nebulae to supernova explosions, check out these 7 astonishing images of deep space shared by NASA.
Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...
This Hubble image reveals the Horsehead Nebula in infrared, showcasing its delicate, ethereal structure hidden within Orion’s dusty, turbulent star-forming region. Hubble captures NGC 346 ...
From the debris ring of dust, rock, and ice, which is too distant to be seen, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the shadow cast by a fledgling star’s brilliant light. The star is named HBC 672 in ...
This Hubble image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, one of astronomy's most studied objects. The Lagoon Nebula, first catalogued in 1654 by Giovanni Battista Hodierna, has been ...