As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently photographed—supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the sun that exploded about ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

The bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this Hubble Space Telescope image, which has also captured a smaller companion star in the upper left of this image.

Now, Hubble’s various images of the Butterfly Nebula have given us a glimpse of what it could look like after our star finally says goodbye. Many scientists expect the sun to die in around 10 ...

The telescope’s size let it make images of very faint objects, and its high-quality mirror allowed it to distinguish individual stars in some of the nebulae. Edwin Hubble uses the telescope at ...

Its 200-inch parabolic mirror gathers four times as much nebula light as Mount Wilson’s 100-inch mirror. Palomar will see twice as far, and it may tell Hubble whether the universe is really ...

The more distant the star is, the fainter it appears. Hubble worked hard, taking images of spiral nebulae every clear night and looking for the telltale variations of Cepheid variables.

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering ... ancestors were just beginning to farm. This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to ...

The agency is also encouraging institutions and astronomy clubs to conduct “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae, star clusters and galaxies spotted by Hubble in its decades of ...