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

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

Definition: Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope named after renowned astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was launched in 1990 and is one of the great observatories of NASA. Description: Hubble ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful ... The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

In 1994, the Hubble Space Telescope supposedly captured an image that corresponded, according to rumors at the time, to a celestial city that many claimed was heaven. Experts were quick to debunk ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

The Tarantula Nebula is one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard. — Samantha Mathewson Read more: Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy ...

One of the many amazing things about the NASA program ... Taken from roughly 5 billion light-years away, the James Web Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a photo of the Leo P star galaxy. According to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares ... for 48 hours over the course of one year in eight to 10-hour increments, using Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera to ...