Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful ...

The Veil Nebula, a remnant of a 10,000-year-old supernova, dazzles in this Hubble image, revealing its glowing tendrils of gas. Captured in multiple wavelengths, this snapshot not only showcases its ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

Hubble’s Blue Bubble: The distinctive blue bubble appearing to encircle WR 31a is a Wolf–Rayet nebula — an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other gases. Carina Nebula’s ...

An uncropped image of UGC 5460. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Jacobson-Galán, A. Filippenko, J. Mauerha) For example, in 2015, astronomers watched the star SN 2015 explode as a "core ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. Known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 is a giant cloud of gas ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered 36 new dwarf galaxies around Andromeda and ongoing star formation within them, contradicting previous theories. They appear to undergo unique evolution ...

Definition: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope named after renowned astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was launched in 1990 and is one of the great observatories of NASA. Description: Hubble ...

Illustration of the Hubble Space Telescope over the Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen) Hubble Space Telescope Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio Predicting the motion of ...

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