April’s nights see some of the sky’s largest constellations, and from their vastness spring a laundry list of celestial and mythological marvels.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a spiral galaxy, NGC 4900, and a nearby star in the constellation Virgo. Despite appearing close, the star is 7,109 light-years away, while the ...

The largest "grand design" spirals can host a dozen or more individual arms. But recently, detailed, high-resolution observations with the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a ...

Hubble’s optical stability ... Other massive galaxies beyond Andromeda, like M81 (which lies nearly 12 million light-years away), are too far to examine their satellite systems in comparable depth.

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous galaxy bursting with new star formation. This intermediate spiral galaxy is located about 50 million light-years from Earth in ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

As a distant member of the M81 Group, it lies approximately 8 million light-years from Earth. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 106, also known as NGC 4258, is a stunning ...

A dazzling spiral galaxy and a brilliant foreground star create an illusion of proximity in a breathtaking new Hubble image. The star, much closer to Earth, stands out with its four diffraction spikes ...

The legendary Hubble Space Telescope has turned its gaze to the Ursa Major-adjacent galaxy UGC 5460, revealing spiral arms, star clusters and a possible supernova "imposter".