In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

While numerous Milky Way photographers will prominently feature the galactic ... I suggest going after the Pillars of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a phenomenon for the very first time. The bright red streaks at top left of this image are aligned protostar outflows – jets of gas from newborn stars ...

NGC 6302, in the Milky Way’s Scorpius constellation, spans two light-years, with glowing gas expelled from a star 2200 years ago. This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies ... outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most ...

This collage highlights a small selection of regions of the Milky Way imaged as part of the most ... also known as the Omega Nebula or Swan ... [+] Nebula, a stellar nursery located ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

The footage, captured by the Hubble telescope, highlights the Tarantula Nebula. This fascinating region lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A Star-Forming ...

Lagoon nebula: Located about 4000 light-years away ... complex that makes up part of the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy. NGC 602: Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud ...

a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away – too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.

a paper read by one of his colleagues on his behalf reported that the Andromeda nebula, also called M31, was nearly a million light years away—too remote to be a part of the Milky Way.