Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

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

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

Explore the evolution of a groundbreaking scientific instrument that has redefined our understanding of the cosmos – from its inception in 1608 to the cutting-edge gamma-ray telescopes of today.

The SPHEREx telescope will create the most colorful map of the cosmos, while the four satellites of the PUNCH mission track the evolution of the solar wind in three dimensions. transcript A SpaceX ...

If SPHEREx spots something of interest, then Webb or the Hubble Space Telescope can zoom in on it. Each satellite carries a camera, which acts like a synchronized, single, virtual instrument with ...

The new image of NGC 4900 was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with both Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Planetary ...