In an attempt to find out, last year, Kastner and his colleagues used the Submillimeter Array (SMA) — a network of radio ...

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from ... creating a stunning cosmic backdrop. This Hubble image reveals the Horsehead Nebula in infrared ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

Hubble’s 30th anniversary image turned into ... We can now handle much larger images and datasets as well as render high-resolution, complex scenes that would have been impossible before.

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...