The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming ...
The gauzy-looking celestial body UGC 5829 is an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. The Little Dumbbell Nebula, located 3,400 light-years away, is found in the northern ...
Space telescopes are prominent uses of optical technologies. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is renowned for its ...
Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the ...
Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, ...
This Hubble image of Messier 2’s core was created using observations taken at visible and infrared wavelengths. This sparkling picture taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the centre of ...
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
NASA has shared an image showing a stunning view of space as it showcases two galaxies which have only just "grazed one ...
Astronomers have spotted thousands of young stars huddled around the center of an ancient galaxy, all of which formed nearly ...
It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...