Messier 42 better known as the Orion Nebula, with the unaided eye from a dark sky site. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, ...
This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...
In 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope conducted a remarkable experiment by focusing for 10 straight days on a seemingly empty, dark patch of sky near the Big Dipper, roughly the size of a pinhead held ...
Hubble’s breathtaking images of the Tarantula Nebula showcase one of the most massive stars ever discovered. Join us as we explain this stunning 4K image and reveal the science behind it!