The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble is kicking off the ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unveiled a striking new ...

IT之家3月20日消息，天文学家借助哈勃太空望远镜，观测到位于小麦哲伦云（Small Magellanic Cloud）的NGC460星团正孕育大量新生恒星。NGC460位于小麦哲伦云的N83区域，这是银河系最近的伴星系之一，距离地球约20万光年。NGC460包含数千颗年轻恒星，属疏散星团（open star cluster），由引力松散束缚，周围环绕着不同大小的星云（气体与尘埃云），为新恒星形成 ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

Newly-processed image of Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster shows that this old space telescope can still impress with its ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) galaxy is a striking feature of the southern sky even to the unaided eye. But visible-light telescopes cannot get a really clear view of what is in the galaxy ...

ABSTRACT We have derived far‐ultraviolet extinction curves for stars in the Galaxy, LMC, and SMC from spectra of pairs of stars observed with the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) ...