A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing ...

Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI On the back end of a telescope, looks can be deceiving. Two decades ago, astronomers spied something strange with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that they dubbed ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

This new JWST image of HH 49/50 also reveals that a fuzzy object at the top of the pillar of gas originally seen in images taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope is actually a distant spiral galaxy ...

NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured the same shot in 2006, with scientists then dubbing the stellar jet “the cosmic tornado.” But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy ...

The image reveals an outflow of hot gas from a newborn star — known as a Herbig-Haro object — situated about 625 light-years ...

A changing understanding of dark energy may provide a new answer European telescope studying the dark universe unveils new images of distant ... NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope captured ...