A Fresh Look at the Crab Nebula
This observation from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released on March 23, 2026, gives an unparalleled, detailed look at…
NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured…
Hubble Spies an Active Spiral
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with…
NASA Webb, Hubble Share Most Comprehensive View of Saturn to Date
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to capture new views of Saturn,…
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a…
NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up
In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of…
Dame Carole Jordan, astrophysicist who studied ‘cool stars’ and the outer layer of the Sun – obituary
She was born on July 19 1941, to Reginald Jordan and Ethel, née Waller. From Harrow County Grammar…
Telescopes Team Up for New View of Cat’s Eye Nebula
This March 3, 2026, image combines views from ESA’s (European Space Agency) Euclid and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…
NASA Discovers Crash of Extreme Stars in Unexpected Site
A fleet of NASA missions has likely uncovered a collision between two ultradense stars in a tiny galaxy…
The Hubble Is Inexorably Falling to Earth
For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking…
Young ‘Sun’ Caught Blowing Bubbles by NASA’s Chandra
For the first time, a much younger version of the Sun has been caught red-handed blowing bubbles in…
NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies
The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, within the dashed red circle at right, is dominated by dark matter and contains…