How do images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear so colorful, and where do the colors come from?

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

For humans, the most important star in the universe is the Sun. The second most important star is nestled inside in the Andromeda galaxy. Don’t go looking for it. The flickering star is 2.2 million ...

"The protostars are midway down the path to becoming mature stars." Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away, the ...

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

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

He thought these might be clues to galaxy evolution -- but the answer had to wait for the Hubble Space Telescope's legendary Hubble Deep Field in 1994.

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NGC 6302, in the Milky Way’s Scorpius constellation, spans two light-years, with glowing gas expelled from a star 2200 years ago. This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year ...