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A colossal cluster of galaxies is bending the very fabric of space—and it’s the focus of this week’s breathtaking image from ...
Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has caputured new imagery of 9.5 light-years tall portion the Eagle Nebula, located 7000 ...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Horse-head Nebula. It is the sharpest infrared imagery to date. The iconic nebula is about 1300 light-years away. Credit ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.
This stunning Hubble Space Telescope image is formed by light that began its journey 250 million years ago from the spiral galaxy UGC 11397 in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance the ...
In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...
Astronomers studied 10,000 stars in Hubble pictures to make this composite image and to learn about the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. Light from our own galaxy is the most recently produced ...
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by radiation cast out by generations of energetic young stars.
Hubble's data points to a slow inward drift of dust from Uranus' distant irregular moons, which orbit between 2.5 to 13 million miles (4 to 20 million kilometers) from the planet.