With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

After putting on a great show in our evening sky since the fall of 2024, dazzling Venus puts on a spectacular showing for ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in ...

In this image, three wavelengths of light have been combined to highlight the Milky Way (purple) and cosmic microwave background (gray ... 200 billion trillion stars. But in the beginning ...

"We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies ... measured the polarization of light from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). That's the faint microwave ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

When telescopes capture light from the ... a large proportion of stars that have very high masses (100–300 times that of the Sun) and are extraordinary hot and blue, with effective temperatures ...

Located approximately 625 light-years from ... a “sea of distant background galaxies.”. A closer look showcases a blue “prominent central bulge” home to older stars, while the red regions ...

WHICH ONE IS BERNIE? -courtesy photo You can argue that the huge changes in our society being wrenched through by the MAGA ...

Polarized light vibrates in a particular direction; blue shows where the surrounding ... “We are seeing the first steps towards making the earliest stars and galaxies,” says Suzanne Staggs ...