The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Hubble photographed NGC 346 some two decades ago. This visible-light portrait shows more stars and nebulosity than the JWST image of the same cluster (at right).

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, known as NGC 5643, is ...

Thirty years later, Hubble continues to fascinate. Its famous images have helped astronomers answer some of space’s biggest questions, from How old is the universe? (13.8 billion years old) to ...

The Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is similar in size, mass, and shape to our own spiral Milky Way. ESO researcher Enrico Congiu said ...

Sometimes even scientists get lucky. Yale University astronomer Imad Pasha was scanning some ground-based images when he stumbled across a galaxy boasting several rings. Because the object’s ...

NGC 2169 is a pair of open clusters, two groups of stars each born together from the same cloud of nebular material. As seen from Earth, they ap­­pear to form the numerals 3 and 7; hence the ...

The blurring caused by Earth’s atmosphere makes it impossible to tell one star from another, but from Hubble’s location in low-Earth orbit the atmosphere no longer poses a problem. This star-studded ...

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