M82 has been a popular target for astronomers and their telescopes, due to its high activity. Hubble has observed it many ...

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The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

Energetic starlight is reshaping a vast molecular cloud 160,000 lightyears away. Hubble has captured a new generation of ...

Have you ever dreamed of traveling through the vast universe like an astronaut? Now, the opportunity has arrived! The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia space telescope has brought us an unprecedented ...

Astronomers are uncovering the earliest stages of planet formation with the help of technologies like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Recent findings from the Butterfly Nebula, 3,400 ...

"Gaia provides the first accurate view of what our section of the Milky Way would look like from above," Lewis McCallum, an astronomer at the University of St. Andrews in the United Kingdom and first ...

A striking nebula shaped like a cosmic hand has emerged even more mysterious in a newly released composite view that blends X‑ray and radio data. At its centre lies the pulsar B1509‑58—an intensely ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope.

Because they are densely covered in dust, the regions in which stars are formed are particularly difficult to study. Now there is an impressive map.

Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data ...