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 ...

This week, NASA and ESA highlighted an image captured by Hubble of the highly productive Tarantula Nebula (officially named 30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it’s a sight to behold. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Eaton Fire made a run for Mount Wilson on Thursday afternoon. But the Mount Wilson Observatory and the telescope were not damaged, thanks to firefighters' efforts, said L.A. County Fire Chief ...

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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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 ...