"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow ...

With these observations, astronomers have ... Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

At double the width of our Milky Way galaxy, this jet of radio waves is the biggest ever detected so early in the history of the universe, astronomers reported Thursday. Radio jets like this are ...

Edwin “Ed” Hein, Jr., 60, of Philadelphia, passed away on Feb 3, 2025. He was the beloved father of Anabel and Lola. Services: A viewing will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 8th ...

Thousands of young stars shine within NGC 3603 which is one of the most massive and active star-forming clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. Hubble captured a beautiful image of Westerlund 1.