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

Hubble captured the stunning star cluster NGC 2203, revealing its dazzling appearance. This cluster holds key insights into the lifetimes of stars. Hubble's 25th-anniversary image features Westerlund ...

Arp 282: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

This Hubble image shows part of planetary nebula Caldwell 2 (NGC 40). Gas is expanding from the central star, which is at the ...

NASA has captured breathtaking images of seven rare and stunning interacting galaxies, showcasing cosmic collisions, ...

Around 2015, astronomers took on the painstaking task of stitching together Hubble Space Telescope images of this galaxy, but that effort had focused on the galaxy's northern half. Still, however, the ...

This image of the galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is from the Frontier Fields project, using natural gravitational lenses and ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and ...

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