Day 19 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: a beacon in the clouds. This image from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

From the mystique of the Pillars of Creation to a sneak peek into the the deepest parts of our universe, check out these 10 ...

31, 2024 — For Halloween, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reveals a spooktacular image of a dark nebula ... Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy.

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded ... in the Large ...

On Dec. 15, 1612, the Andromeda galaxy was seen through a telescope for the first time by a German astronomer named Simon Marius. The Andromeda galaxy is the closest major galaxy to the Milky Way, and ...

The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems ... to other Cepheids across the Milky Way. This is how Shapley reached his estimate for our galaxy's size. But, in order for ...

Hubble had found that two spiral-shaped nebulae, objects made up of gas and stars, which were previously thought to reside within our Milky Way galaxy, were located outside it. These objects were ...

NGC 248 is a glowing nebula in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way The Red Rectangle Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula in ... This image of LH63 Cloaked in Red is ...

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star ...

revealing new clues about what our own galaxy, the Milky Way, may have looked like billions of years ago. In new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the galaxy appears as a long ...

A New Galaxy ... James Webb space telescopes to revisit the legendary Vega ... One of the Fastest-Spinning Stars in the Universe Oct. 30, 2024 — New research in our Milky Way has revealed ...