14 above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab in Tucson, Ariz. The same group published a new, broader set of analyses Tuesday that ...

A photo shared on social media authentically showed the Helix Nebula captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. A photo ...

A dying star is throwing a cosmic tantrum in this combined image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), which NASA has lent to the California Institute of ...

A telescope ... At left is what Hubble saw in the visible spectrum: cloudy, ethereal, diffuse. But at right, in the IR band, far more stars are visible through the nebula. Infrared astronomy ...

Know some facts about stars and their evolution along with some images of star formation captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Did you know? Stars become red giants billions of years. It happens ...

UGC 10043, a unique spiral galaxy located 150 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens, is observed edge-on by the Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing its disc as a sharp line with a ...

the faint parts of the nebula were brightened in each master image with ExponentialTransformation and CurvesTransformation. Sharpening: A mask was used to select brighter regions of nebulosity in each ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390 million light-years away and a part of the Coma galaxy cluster.

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the "queen's hair." The galactic duo, formally known as MCG+05-31-045, is located 390 ...