NASA is celebrating the Hubble Telescope’s 36th birthday with stunning images of the Trifid Nebula, nearly 5,000 light-years away from Earth.

This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope have recently released a breathtaking new image of NGC 2835, a spiral galaxy located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. This latest photo, ...

IC 486, a barred spiral galaxy, lies at the edge of the constellation Gemini an inconceivable 380 million light-years from ...

Hubble’s newest view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2835 adds a stunning twist to a familiar sight. By capturing light in a special wavelength called H-alpha, astronomers have revealed glowing pink nebulae ...

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A tight clump of four star clusters sits in the Perseus galaxy cluster, and at first glance it looks like nothing special. No bright spiral arms. No obvious central bulge. Not even the soft smudge you ...

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The constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear) is home to Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy. Messier 101 is one of the biggest and brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. Like the Milky Way, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CDG-2 in the Perseus cluster was found through four globular clusters and a faint glow seen by Hubble and Euclid. (CREDIT: NASA, ...