A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

The ionized hydrogen gas seen among dark lanes of dust fuel the rapid birth of new stars, according to a statement from NASA that accompanied the release of the Hubble image. "Starburst galaxies ...

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...

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Starburst spiral NGC 4536 is bright with blue clusters of star ... are locked in an active embrace. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of interacting galaxies Arp 142 seems to sing ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

As the entire college basketball community worried about the status of Duke phenom Cooper Flagg on Thursday afternoon, a final 20 minutes still had to be played in Charlotte. The top-ranked Blue ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...