This cloudy, turbulent scene acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2017 shows a stellar nursery within the Large Magellanic Cloud. […]
Nature likes spirals – from the whirlpool of a hurricane to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe. […]
This celestial cloudscape from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region in the Orion Nebula surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. […]
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looks at two spiral galaxies, collectively known as Arp 303. […]
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of the galaxy cluster, Abell 2147, about 486 million light-years away in the head of the serpent, the constellation Serpens. […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang – the farthest individual star ever seen to date. […]
An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. […]
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. […]
Shadows on Earth can be mysterious and foreboding, but when they occur in space, they can convey information we otherwise could not know. In a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, nearly 1,300 light-years away, a young star’s game of shadow play is revealing secrets of its unseen planet-forming disk. […]
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, released to commemorate a quarter century of exploring the solar system and beyond since its launch on April 24, 1990. […]
