This image presents an artist’s impression of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first…
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A debris disk, which includes comets, asteroids, rocks of various sizes, and plenty of dust, orbits the star Beta Pictoris, which is blocked at the…
This is an artist’s concept of a galaxy with a brilliant quasar at its center. A quasar is a very bright, distant and active supermassive…
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the trailing arms of NGC 2276, a spiral galaxy 120 million light-years away in the…
The Orion Bar is a diagonal, ridge-like feature of gas and dust in the lower left quadrant of this image of the Orion Nebula. Sculpted…
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arms They come from anywhere in the sky: mysterious flashes of radio energy that disappear in…
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one…
This is the compass image for VY Canis Majoris, showing the orientation and filters used. Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Humphreys (University of Minnesota), and…
Trojan Asteroid 2019 LD2. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, B. Bolin IPAC/Caltech) Comet Comes in from the Cold and Finds an Off-Ramp on Its Sunward Journey…
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the heart of the globular star cluster Messier 92 (M92), one of the oldest and brightest in…
Artist’s concept of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and Northrop Grumman Deep-sky survey seeks to answer some of astronomy’s most pressing questions.…
This six-minute visual exploration of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showcases the characteristics and contents of this landmark observation, as well as its four-dimensional nature…
This video shows the drastic changes to the planetary nebula Hen 3-1357, nicknamed the Stingray nebula, over two decades as captured by NASA’s Hubble Space…
This is a ground-based telescopic photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The galaxy is one of several…
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are two of the most well-known residents of the Kuiper Belt. This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto…
This artist’s illustration portrays two galaxies that existed in the first billion years of the universe. The larger galaxy at left hosts a brilliant quasar…
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status of a supernova, the self-detonation of a star. The Hubble snapshots have been…
Although the two galaxies in NGC 3256 appear merged when viewed in visible light, a second, bright nucleus is found hiding among the tangle of…
The moon Io orbits Jupiter in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Jupiter and Io appear deceptively close in this image, when in fact the…
The CEERS Survey researchers will use the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the Extended Groth Strip in infrared light. Their observations employ three of…