Let's explore the seven best images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2024. This composite image of the Crab ...

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One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

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Marcos Bavdaz is Head of the Technology Preparation Section in the Science Directorate of the European Space Agency (ESA).

This isn’t a new development—in fact, this strange galactic quirk was likely hiding in plain sight when German astronomer ...

Peering through Herschel’s 40ft telescope may have provided the cosmic inspiration for The Representation of Chaos, the famous opening of The Creation. It brilliantly captures the formation of ...

Discovered through the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey ... future telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet in our Solar System, but things could have been worse. After all, being the ...

It was first cataloged by William Herschel in 1785 ... as well as archival optical observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array radio telescope ...

The gigantic mirror of the Rosse telescope has long been engaged in ... The view which Sir John Herschel had long since formed on the behavior of the fleecy clouds of a summer night under the ...