That work was done in the 1920s by Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer for whom the telescope is named. This stunning image shows another part of the Tarantula Nebula, where clouds of colorful ...

On 1 January 1925, US astronomer Henry Norris Russell made a startling announcement to the American Astronomical Society in Washington DC: observations by fellow astronomer Edwin Hubble showed ...

A Hubble telescope image shows the most detailed view of NGC 346 yet, a stellar nursery within the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA / NASA / A. Nota / P. Massey / E. Sabbi / C. Murray / M.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope introduced research findings that forced a major change in scientific understanding of Uranus. The established knowledge about Uranus’s rotation period remained unchanged ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists ...

In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very real. We are seeing vast clouds of ionized atoms and molecules, thrown into space by a dying star. This is a planetary ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Hubble Space Telescope captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941, located 67 million light-years away in Virgo. The observations focus on star ...

Nota, P. Massey, E. Sabbi, C. Murray, M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) Orbiting the Milky Way at a distance of roughly 210,000 light-years is the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the two closest galaxies to ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4900 appears to show a bright star overlapping the spiral galaxy. But while both celestial objects appear to be in the constellation Virgo as viewed from ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a spiral ...