Star birth in the spiral galaxy M83, nicknamed Southern Pinwheel
The spectacular new camera installed on... read more
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Arp 147 interacting galaxies
A composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located... read more
Using Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of... read more
The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations... read more
In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011,... read more
In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual... read more
New observations from Herschel reveal that an exploding star expelled the equivalent of between 160... read more
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at... read more
Nasa's Swift, Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to study one... read more
In this striking image, a delicate sphere of gas, photographed by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope,... read more
Astronomy textbooks typically present galaxies as staid, solitary, and majestic island worlds of glittering stars.... read more