The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured twelve interacting galaxies with long, tadpole-shaped tidal tails. These collisions spark star formation, revealing 425 clusters of newborn stars along ...

That’s us.’ From Pale Blue Dot (1994) by Carl Sagan. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech But what, exactly, should we make of ...

To find Betelgeuse in the April night sky, you need only look to the western sky soon after sunset, and locate the three ...

In 1936, astronomers saw a puzzling event in the constellation Orion: the young star FU Orionis ... Now, a team of astronomers has wielded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's ultraviolet capabilities ...

“The Orion Nebula is spectacular ... known by the famous photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. A telescope will also show you the gas bands on Jupiter and the rings of Saturn.

5 - Beehive Cluster A ground based image of the M44 star cluster on the left, with a zoomed-in Hubble view on the right ... and was initially mistaken as a nebula by the famed astronomer ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas, complete ...

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on the left, while the two insets at the right show the near-infrared view taken by ...