With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...

T he Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star patterns ... Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed over 150 such "getting-ready-to-make-planets" disks, an indication ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a mesmerizing new image of the Orion Nebula. It is a star-forming region, and its distance from Earth is about 1,500 light-years. This breathtaking view ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of ...

Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula: Believed to be the ...