Hubble has captured a mesmerizing photo of a cosmic nursery found in Orion. The reflection nebula, which is known as NGC 1999, looks eerily similar to a keyhole. The nebula itself, the European ...

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable star, was more than 900,000 light years from Earth -- way beyond our own galaxy -- a ...

a dense knot of dozens of ultra-hot stars were detected nestled in the nebula Hubble-V, each glowing 100,000 times brighter than our Sun!” NASA wrote and shared an image that will make your jaw ...

To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula" — which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.

Astronomers believe that the Cone Nebula is an incubator for developing stars. Over time, the densest regions of the nebula will remain, and stars and planets may form there.

A similar event likely created the colorful nebula, called Cederblad 211 ... beautiful image of R Aquarii and Cederblad 211 from the Hubble Space Telescope, a time-lapse video was created using ...

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) ...

Cosmic Reef: This Hubble image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace. The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020 ...

The Calabash Nebula, pictured here -- which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 -- is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble ...

The Ring Nebula: Messier 57, more commonly known as the Ring Nebula, is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. It was discovered by French ...

Dense clouds of cosmic dust in the nebula obscure star-forming structures from instruments that rely on visible light, like the Hubble Space Telescope. By gathering infrared light, Webb is able to ...