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 ...

Saturn is below Venus and very low in the predawn sky. In late April it is five degrees above the horizon. You may need ...

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 ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...

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.

Work on the Hubble Space Telescope resumed today as a second pair of spacewalkers from the space shuttle Columbia set about finishing the job of hanging new solar-power arrays on the orbiting ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and ... It's an entire freaking galaxy. With Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes' data combined, right, Neptune's auroras are ...

Astronomers expect its images to be 16 times sharper than those captured by the beloved Hubble Space Telescope. Alone, the ELT will help scientists untangle the universe's history by examining ...

According to an article published by NASA on Wednesday, March 26, the Webb telescope “captured bright auroral activity on Neptune” for the very first time in June 2023. Despite “successful ...

Hubble’s image shows NGC 4536’s rapid star formation in Virgo Ionized hydrogen gas fuels young, hot blue stars in the galaxy NGC 4536’s bar structure channels gas, intensifying star birth ...