"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...
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, ...
Cosmic Leviathan: A galaxy cluster, resembling a submerged sea monster, distorts spacetime around it, as captured by the ...
When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.
The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
From solar storms to "shooting stars" over Stonehenge, here are our top 10 favorite space photos of 2024 — and what they told ...
Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...