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January 17, 2026

Newly developing stars shrouded in thick dust get their first baby pictures in these images from NASA’s Hubble…

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Hubble Observes Ghostly Cloud Alive with Star Formation

January 17, 2026

While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it’s actually full of new life. Lupus…

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Side by side images of four protoplantetary disks in visible light., and four different protoplanetary disks in infrared light.

January 15, 2026

This collection of new images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases protoplanetary disks, the swirling masses of…

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Hubble Observes Stars Flaring to Life in Orion

January 15, 2026

Just-forming stars, called protostars, dazzle a cloudy landscape in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex (OMC). These three new…

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$Image shows a large spiral galaxy that that has a bright white center, with several lanes of reddish-brown dust and gas in between faint white arms. The galaxy takes up the center third of the frame. There are several thousand stars, some with diffraction spikes, scattered around the image. This image is labeled Hubble. A small box outlining an area at the center of the galaxy leads a pullout square at the top right. The image, labeled Webb, is dark with a white glowing oval at the center.$

January 13, 2026

The Circinus Galaxy, a galaxy about 13 million light-years away, contains an active supermassive black hole that continues…

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James Webb Space Telescope image showing a broad area of space with many small galaxies, four of which are highlighted in pull-out boxes. The four highlighted galaxies are very small, appearing as points of light. Black areas of the overall image indicate where the telescope did not collect data - a vertical section in the center and a square in the lower left corner.

January 6, 2026

After combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of…

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An illustration of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, its companion star, and a dusty wake. The disk of a red-orange star is in the center. It is surrounded by a diffuse orange cloud representing its extended atmosphere. Below it about one stellar diameter away is a yellow dot representing a smaller companion star. From the companion, a dark red cloud wraps around in a counterclockwise direction. It begins very narrow and expands as it gets further from the companion, finally disappearing at the outer edge of the diffuse orange cloud around 10 ou2019clock. The words u201cartistu2019s conceptu201d are at lower right.

January 5, 2026

Using new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently…

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A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

January 5, 2026

A team using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object — a starless,…

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A grainy orange oval ring tilts slightly from upper right to lower left.

December 27, 2025

Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a…

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$Near the center is an object that resembles an edge-on view of a hamburger. There is a diagonal dark strip (the meat patty) of dust, running from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock, that obscures a central star. Curving away from either side of the dark strip are glowing white clouds (the buns) where dust is reflecting starlight. Bright blue finger-like wisps of material extend far above and below the dark center plane. A few dozen stars, some with four diffraction spikes, are scattered on the black background of space.$