NASA says its Hubble Space Telescope has captured evidence of a white dwarf star consuming the remnants of a Pluto-like object - a scenario that may predict what will happen to planets in our own ...

As this Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows in great detail, it's home to brilliant stars whose light is shaded by sculptural clouds, clumps and streaks of dust and gas. It's no surprise ...

White dwarf companion detected orbiting BSS4 in the cluster 47 Tucanae Hubble ultraviolet observations confirm the presence of a hot compact sta The system likely ...

Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented look inside a butterfly nebula, revealing matter around a dying star. The international space community, consisting of NASA, ...

CARDIFF, Wales — Astronomers just got a front-row seat to one of the universe’s strangest chemistry experiments, and it’s happening inside the death throes of a star. Using the James Webb Space ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff ...

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This star factory is the largest and brightest in its host galaxy. Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in ...