Hubble has captured a mesmerizing photo of a cosmic nursery found in Orion. The reflection nebula, which is known as NGC 1999, looks eerily similar to a keyhole. The nebula itself, the European Space ...

Day 8 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a mysterious nebula. Details of a complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained by ...

Hubble's library is brimming with wondrous snapshots of the universe. The iconic telescope has been peering through millions of stars and galaxies for more than 30 years now, and this stirring and ...

A tweet sparked a debate over one of the James Webb telescope’s first images. Software developer and amateur astronomer Kevin Jardine, who created the European Space Agency’s Star Density Map and runs ...

The Red Spider Nebula: Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The Spirograph Nebula: Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the ...

The picture is a montage assembled from four different April 1999 telescope pointings with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which used six different colour filters. The picture is dominated by ...

Several well known astronomical objects in and near the Carina Nebula can be seen in this wide field image: to the bottom left of the image is one of the most impressive binary stars in the Universe, ...

This is the Carina Nebula, also known as NGC 3372. It is a diffuse nebula and it is about 7,500 light-years from our celestial home; it can be found in the constellation Carina. This image, taken by ...