As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
It is part of a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way ... of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.
In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...
The Andromeda nebula, M31, was a prominent example ... light was always shifted to longer or redder wavelengths. Light from the galaxy passes through a prism or reflects off a diffraction ...
From supermassive black holes to vibrant star clusters and nebulae, check out these 7 mesmerizing cosmic images captured by ...