Quasar illustration. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss What Is a Quasar? A quasar is an extremely active and luminous type of active galactic nucleus (AGN). While all…
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This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows the heart of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy. Webb’s sharp vision has revealed delicate…
A bright star is surrounded by a tenuous shell of gas in this unusual image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. U Camelopardalis, or U…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the Veil Nebula reveals the fine details of the nebula’s delicate threads and filaments of ionized gas. Credit: ESA/Hubble…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 1156. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. B. Tully, R. Jansen, R. Windhorst The galaxy featured in this Hubble Picture…
This Hubble image gives the most detailed view of the entire Crab Nebula ever. The Crab is among the most interesting and well-studied objects in…
Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This vibrant…
This star-studded Hubble Space Telescope image shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. To capture the data in this…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of a gravitationally lensed galaxy that is identified as SGAS J143845+145407. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Rigby This intriguing observation from…
This image alternates between Webb and Hubble images of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James…
Hubble Space Telescope observation of the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen This observation from the NASAEstablished…
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Shown in blue on the image is a map of the…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen The sparkling globular cluster…
Artist’s illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) White dwarf…
Hubble Space Telescope image of massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling, Acknowledgment: L. Shatz The massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351…
This illustration shows a white dwarf star siphoning off debris from shattered objects in a planetary system. The Hubble Space Telescope detects the spectral signature…
This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. The black hole is the crushed remnant…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering scene of globular cluster Terzan 9 in the constellation Sagittarius, towards the center of the Milky Way. Credit:…
Hubble Space Telescope of globular cluster Ruprecht 106. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASAEstablished…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3631, the Grand Design Spiral, located about 53 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.…