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

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

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

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have studied one of the largest young star clusters in our galaxy, ...

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

Compared to their more isolated counterparts, the galaxies in galaxy clusters are often distorted by the gravitational pull ...

The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and looking for the telltale variations of Cepheid variables. By the end of ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Science Central is offering an out-of-this-world exhibit for a limited time. The Hubble and Webb Telescope exhibit introduces people to the iconic Hubble photos and gives ...

Legend has it he once fought off a bear single-handedly. I'm serious. Robert Alexander / Getty Images 8.This is Maud Wagner, who is widely believed to be the first female professional tattoo ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images offer a captivating view of how galaxies interact and evolve over time. The complex gravitational forces between these galaxies may lead to mergers ...

The blue light comes from electrons whirling at nearly the speed of light around magnetic field lines from the neutron star, which is the crushed, ultra-dense core of the exploded star.

The image shows the Arches star cluster, 25,000 light-years away, captured through infrared observations from Hubble and ground-based telescopes. This Hubble image shows NGC 6397, a star cluster 8,200 ...