Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

NASA has released a remarkable composite image of 30 Doradus, also called the Tarantula Nebula. Located 160,000 ... s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large ...

A stunning Valentine's view of a nebula contains hidden depths of ... data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

The Lagoon Nebula, first recorded by Giovanni Battista Hodierna ... stunning examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope during its 30-year mission ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray ...

This image was captured in 1995 by the the Hubble Space Telescope. The pillars are each a staggering 4-5 light-years in length, and represent only a small portion of the much large Eagle Nebula ...