The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

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

NGC 4536 is a starburst galaxy with rapid star formation due to gas compression. Its bar-like structure channels gas toward ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble image features the spiral galaxy NGC 5530. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker The subject of today's NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided a striking image of NGC 5530, a spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus. Unlike grand-design spirals ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4900 appears to show a bright star overlapping the spiral galaxy. But while both celestial objects appear to be in the constellation Virgo as viewed from ...

The subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This galaxy is situated 40 million light-years away in the constellation Lupus, the Wolf, and ...

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light." A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a ...

Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).

Hubble’s image shows NGC 4536’s rapid star formation in Virgo Ionized hydrogen gas fuels young, hot blue stars in the galaxy NGC 4536’s bar structure channels gas, intensifying star birth ...

Arp 105 is located around 400 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ursa Major. Also known as NGC 3561, it was discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel on March 30, ...