The reflection nebular NGC 1999 lies about 1,350 light years from Earth in the constellation Orion, and exhibits an inky black central “keyhole” in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA is preparing to release the highest-resolution photos ever captured of 3I/ATLAS, the Manhattan-sized interstellar object ...

Nasa has released images taken by the Webb and Hubble space telescopes that worked together simultaneously for the first time, capturing the space agency’s Dart spacecraft slamming into the asteroid ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, officially known as NGC 6543, is not only among the most intricate planetary nebulae observed in space, ...

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Thirty-five years after its launch into space, the Hubble Space Telescope is still wowing us with its views of the universe, and the cosmic mysteries it is helping unlock. On April 24, 1990, the Space ...

An international team of scientists recently released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the universe ...

Meanwhile, no plans are in the works to build an equivalent space telescope, so astronomers and non-scientists alike hope Hubble will continue to work indefinitely. Click on for 50 images of the ...

In this Hubble image, the giant red nebula, NGC 2014, and its smaller blue neighbour, NGC 2020, are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy of the Milky Way, ...

A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a smoke-wreathed keyhole among the stars. The telescope returned an image of a so-called “reflection nebula” around 1,350 light years in ...