The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

The Cat’s Eye is a young planetary, at perhaps 1,000 years. In part because of this, it shows the multiple stages of a planetary nebula well.

Filling in the blanks R. Williams/STScI, the Hubble Deep Field Team, NASA, ESA In 1995, Hubble took this composite picture of what, to the naked eye, looks like a speck of empty space.

This moth-like nebula is sculpted by the outflow of radiation and stellar winds from a nearly 40,000-degree-Fahrenheit dying star – a white dwarf - at the center. Lower left: The Rosette Nebula.

A dazzling planetary nebula: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has turned its eagle eye to the planetary nebula NGC 6572. 07 Mar, 2025 Tahir Qureshi ...

But 100 years ago, astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, made a stunning discovery: He calculated that a spiral nebula called Andromeda was ...

In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with enigmatic patterns. NGC 2022 is a planetary nebula located in the constellation of Orion.

Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope depict various nebulae and star clusters, like the Butterfly Nebula and NGC 4826. These observations advance our comprehension of stellar processes and ...

Known as Messier 76 or M76, this nebula is situated 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation of Perseus. "The name 'Little Dumbbell' comes from its shape, which is a two ...

The nebula will dissipate in about 15,000 years, a relative blink of the eye in cosmological terms. At that point, the white dwarf will be all that remains of the former solar system (unless that ...

More Staring like the unblinking eye of God (or the eye of Sauron, depending on your literary taste) the Helix Nebula is an infamously spooky object that has captivated astronomers for 200 years ...