Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope‘s Wide ...
Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
Crab Nebula: Located 6,500 light-years away from Earh, it is the highest-resolution image ever taken by the Hubble Space ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...
Hubble Space Telescope can "only see the universe in shades of grey," according to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Learn how the imagery is processed into amazing color views of the cosmos. Credit ...
The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...
SOFIA captures the magnetic field lines shaping the Keyhole Nebula, revealing hidden forces at play in the Carina Nebula.
NASA often shares images of nebulae, explaining the intricate complexities of the cosmos. These swirling funnel-shaped clouds ...
The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...
How prepared are we to deflect an asteroid heading towards Earth? This question is answered by two studies just published in ...
A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...