In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the ...

Dive into a celestial masterpiece with the Hubble Space Telescope's latest snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud, showcasing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures extraordinary images of young stars, shedding light on star formation in the Orion Nebula.

RIT Professor Joel Kastner leads a research team that determines the true three-dimensional structure of the iconic Ring ...

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 ...

Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...

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

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

The Red Spider Nebula: Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This warm planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars ...

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 ...

The composite picture is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp Hubble ... telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar ...

A hazy Nebula: This new image from Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 showcases ... anniversary in space the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope took this amazing and colourful image of the ...