Like its mythological namesake, the Phoenix Cluster burns with blisteringly hot gas, which cools to birth stars. The James ...
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...
Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a supermassive galactic open cluster designated Westerlund ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...
NASA releases stunning composite image of 30 Doradus, the Tarantula Nebula, showcasing thousands of young stars, energetic ...
The eight ripples seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in this cosmic scene marks the most ever seen in any galaxy, and data ...
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with ...