A new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white), optical data from Hubble (purple), ...

Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the stars in open cluster KMHK 1231 are loosely bound by gravity and surrounded by crimson gas and dust of the nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

From sparkling brilliance of the Westerlunds, to the stunning view of the Milky Way's galactic center, check out these 10 ...

This is the image of the Tarantula Nebula with tens of thousands of young stars. The nebula is spread across 340 light-years. This Webb image showcases Serpens Nebula with aligned protostellar ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument uses a telescope in Tucson, Arizona, to create a map of the universe's ...

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope highlights the glowing cold dust, shown in white, within two galaxies: IC 2163 and NGC 2207. The smaller galaxy, IC 2163 ...

The Butterfly Nebula, officially designated NGC 6302, is a bipolar planetary nebula situated in the constellation Scorpius. The Tarantula Nebula is a vast H II region located within the Large ...

Nasa has successfully integrated the Roman Coronagraph Instrument onto the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. This milestone brings the mission one step closer to directly observing exoplanets by ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. (NASA image) (NASA) – This NASA/ESA ...

Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, supernova remnants, dark nebulas, and emission nebulas.

This is a remarkable range of scientific targets. Only the Hubble Space Telescope can match the breadth of Webb's scientific targets, but Webb's larger mirror allows it to observe objects 100 ...

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