In its center lies a white dwarf star. This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas ...

Messier 1 better known as the Crab Nebula, Charles Messier originally mistook Messier 1 for Halley’s Comet, which inspired him to create his famous catalog of objects. Peering deep into M1, this ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal ... space found between the Pelican Nebula and the Cygnus Wall, which ...

The image features a dark region of space found between the Pelican Nebula and the Cygnus Wall, which are both part of the North America Nebula in the constellation Cygnus. This region is photographed ...

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The Amery Ice Shelf is one of Antarctica's largest ice shelves, measuring about 23,200 square ...

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. We like to think of land as a fairly static thing, considering that's where we spend the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier ... ESA's Herschel Space Observatory.

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The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886 ... Propulsion Laboratory); Al Wootten (National Radio Astronomy Observatory); ...

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 ...

The result? A clean bill of health and an early set of images that will only get better once the observatory gets its final, much more powerful camera later this year. "It was not just successful ...