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In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...
A new Hubble Space Telescope image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from ...
Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.
How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...
The Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region, shines bright with new stars and protostars in this NASA image. A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that ...
That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...
The observations retained more data than Hubble's. The Orion Nebula sits 1,300 light-years away, but it's among the brightest nebulae in the night sky—you can even see it with the naked eye.
A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...
April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...