ESA/Hubble is continuing the celebrations with a new view of the Eagle Nebula. This vast stellar nursery displays a towering spire of cosmic gas and dust that incorporates new data processing ...

The Orion Nebula, also known as Messier 42 (M42) or NGC 1976, is a bright, diffuse nebula in the constellation Orion, a stellar nursery where new stars are forming, and is the closest major ...

NGC 7293, better known as the Helix nebula, displays its ultraviolet glow courtesy of NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). In this false-color image, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space ...

As enormous as this dusty pillar is, it's just one small piece of the greater Eagle Nebula, also called Messier 16. The name Messier 16 comes from the French astronomer Charles Messier, a comet hunter ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the charming Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the iconic Mexican hat. The galaxy might look ...

This star-forming region in the nearby Carina Nebula is famously known as the "Cosmic Cliffs" by astronomers. The Chandra mission has observed the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant for over 2 million ...

Hydrogen in space can glow, as is the case with the Orion Nebula, but has insufficient density and irradiation to achieve brightness in intergalactic space. (NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA) and the ...

April 16, 2025 • The agency and Novo Nordisk, which makes Ozempic, said Monday that they had learned about "several hundred units" of the drug that made it onto the market outside the company's ...

Apr. 16, 2025 — Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar ...

But even the Hubble Space Telescope can’t reveal everything ... Koenig (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) The Orion nebula is another hotspot of star creation; the trapezium cluster, the bright spots ...