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

The investigation of light and optical properties stretches back centuries, at least to the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians. In fact, even artificial lenses date back to as early as ...

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope spotted LEDA 1313424 "serendipitously ... circles around the galaxy's "bull's-eye." A diagram of the Bullseye Galaxy's nine concentric rings | Credit ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf ...

Hubble was built to be tuned up ... They delved into the telescope's guts during long space walks and replaced parts that the original designers never thought they'd need to.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a galaxy in Gemini, hosting the Type Ia supernova SN 2022aajn, located 600 million light-years away. Type Ia ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was ... In that time, the telescope has offered stunning views of our solar system's planets, galaxies, stars and other parts of the universe never glimpsed before.

Twenty-five years ago, NASA launched one of the most ambitious experiments in the history of astronomy: the Hubble Space Telescope. In honor of Hubble's landmark anniversary, NOVA tells the ...

The mystery arose more than 20 years ago, when the Hubble Space Telescope spotted the universe's oldest known planet, which formed earlier in the universe's history than scientists thought was ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a ...