The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the clearest infrared images yet of the famous Horsehead Nebula. This new ...

The image captured by the space telescope shows hundreds of objects in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes scattered across the vast, dark expanse of space. At the center, a bright yellow star is ...

Tiny grains collected from the asteroid Ryugu have given scientists a new window into the magnetic forces that shaped the ...

Hubble's lens unveils the universe's most breathtaking nebulas, swirling clouds of stardust and light, captured in stunning ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

With yoga mats and beach towels sprawled across the grass and telescopes propped at the night sky, City College students ...

This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights three low-mass objects, seen in the insets to the right. These objects, which are much ...

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Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered a population of free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, a star-forming region located approximately 1,400 light-years ...

Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy just constructed a detailed, three-dimensional map of the cosmic dust in our galaxy ... Space Telescope’s arresting shot of the Carina ...