"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

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

Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

Since Hubble’s launch, astronomers have discovered over 1 trillion galaxies, but Andromeda stands out as the closest and most ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious ... His measurements marked the end of the Great Debate about the Milky Way’s size and the nature of the nebulae. Hubble wrote about his discovery to Harlow ...

With these observations, astronomers have ... Straight Shot: Hubble Investigates Galaxy With Nine Rings Feb. 4, 2025 — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field instrument scientist. “We [will] detect hundreds of millions of galaxies to ...

Edwin “Ed” Hein, Jr., 60, of Philadelphia, passed away on Feb 3, 2025. He was the beloved father of Anabel and Lola. Services: A viewing will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, February 8th ...

Listen to Story LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings. (Photo: Nasa) Hubble telescope has captured a gargantuan structure in ...