This is a planetary nebula designated as NGC 6302 located about 3800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius.
A supernova is a cosmic event in which a star destroys itself in an explosion which can briefly become as luminous as an ...
Thanks to Hubble’s observing power, astronomers can peer closer than ever into the throat of an energetic monster black hole ...
Hubble Space Telescope images of Jupiter have been "photo-mapped onto a sphere," and animated into a full rotation, according ...
This stunning image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, features G35.2-0.7N, a region renowned as a hub for high-mass ...
Hubble's imaging capabilities also allowed for a closer look at the quasar's extragalactic jet—a high-energy beam of material extending 300,000 light-years. Data compared with 22-year-old archival ...
Astronomers have used the unique capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to peer closer than ever into the throat of an ...
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of quasar 3C 273. A coronagraph on Hubble blocks out the glare coming from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the quasar. This allows astronomers to ...
A famous example of an emission nebula is the Orion Nebula, a huge, star-forming nebula in the constellation Orion. This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab ...
After years of effort, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced they managed to capture the first ...
Every night is a good night to look through a telescope (provided it’s not cloudy), but if you’re looking for an excuse, ...