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 ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

The space telescope's image of a odd-looking spiral galaxy is, in reality, two distant galaxies overlapping each other.

Known as SIMP 0136, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope caught a glimpse of it floating through the universe all by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. At the left, an enhanced-color image of Neptune from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

The image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Puppis.

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveiled a stunning new image from the farthest reaches of space. This groundbreaking image ...

(if going by patent filings) of the telescope to finally see Neptune's auroras, and it's thanks to NASA's James Webb Space ...

Neptune often looks slightly different in observations, as it has dark spots which appear periodically. But it can also be bright at times, as the observations of auroras there show: In the image ...