"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

The Hubble Space Telescope produced some jaw-dropping images of swirling galaxies, shining star clusters, and nebulae that channel the spirit of Thor's colorful bifrost bridge this year.

A ground-based image of the galaxy cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA and Digitized Sky Surv The first Hubble deep field is still one of the best space photos ever taken (and this space reporter's ...

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sankrit “This view combines images taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, highlighting emission from hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms.

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope photos of all time The newfound asteroids help refine the census of main belt asteroids, which is already estimated to be over a million. And some of the ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! Classified as an open star cluster, NGC 460 is a loosely bound group of stars, held together by gravity. This type of cluster typically ...

This colorful new view combines images that were taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and highlights hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms. It is showing only a tiny ...

Perhaps future missions to the outer solar system, as well as future observations by Hubble and the James Webb space telescope, will help us learn even more about this icy-ringed gas giant and ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! The bar-like structure of NGC 4536 may funnel gas inward towards the center, creating a dense region where star formation is highly active.