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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
7 rare images of cosmology captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
Caldwell 103 is a treasure of the southern night sky. Also cataloged as NGC 2070 and often called the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus, this chimerical structure is nestled in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...
See the stunning cosmic clouds captured in new Hubble image
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful ...
5 most beautiful photos of Carina Nebula shared by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...
7 latest nebula photos captured by NASA telescope
Crab Nebula: Located 6,500 light-years away from Earh, it is the highest-resolution image ever taken by the Hubble Space ...
Astronomy on MSN2d
The Spike Nebula: How an educated artistic guess was fulfilled
It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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Astronomers have brought you a space Valentine: The Tarantula of the cosmos
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...
8 captivating nebula images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
SOFIA captures the magnetic field lines shaping the Keyhole Nebula, revealing hidden forces at play in the Carina Nebula.