One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
8 jawdropping images of Eagle Nebula captured by NASA
The Eagle Nebula is a young open star cluster situated 7,000 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Serpens. The aptly named Pillars of Creation, showcased in this breathtaking Hubble image ...
Crab Nebula: NASA's Chandra X-Ray Laboratory released this composite of the Crab Nebula with data from Chandra (blue and white), Hubble (purple), and Spitzer (pink).
Nebulae are gigantic clouds of gas and dust that exist in space between stars. Check out 7 mesmerizing photos of this cosmic ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda ...
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The best objects to view and photograph along the Milky Way
Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.
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What Is a Nebula?
After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...
A patch of land east of Fresno is a gateway to the galaxy. Why astronomers love it
The nebulosity of hydrogen gas is revealed with the use of a “Hydrogen-Alpha” filter in an astro image of the Cygnus constellation by Sam Miller, a technician at the Sierra Remote Observatory in ...
Andromeda Galaxy: A barred spiral galaxy, the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named Andromeda Nebula.
Centaurus A: NGC 5128 is a galaxy in constellation Centaurus, discovered in 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop. Messier ...
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'Enticing empire of stars:' See Andromeda galaxy in newly released NASA images
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space ... survey of the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is ...