Darkness and Beauty
UGC 2885, which is about 230 million light-years away, is the largest spiral galaxy yet seen in our region of…
UGC 2885, which is about 230 million light-years away, is the largest spiral galaxy yet seen in our region of…
Wisps of gas, the fires of newborn stars, and a dark zone of starbirth highlight this Webb Space Telescope view…
Astronomers used images from the Hubble and Webb space telescopes to produce this view of MACS0416, a pair of colliding…
The beautiful spiral galaxy IC 342 swirls through the universe in this newly released image from Euclid, a new European…
Lucy, a NASA mission to the outer solar system, discovered that its first target, the asteroid Dinkinesh, is really a…
A new image from Webb Space Telescope shows the Crab Nebula, the aftermath of the explosion of a massive star.…
A pair of spiral galaxies are mixing it up in this recent image from the Gemini South telescope. Collectively known…
Juno, a Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft, snapped this view of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io on October 15, 2023, providing the best view…
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, spins through space in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Discovered 250 years…
The Sun encircles the intervening Moon with a bright ring of fire in this image, which was taken during an…