Hubble scientists theorize that as the nebula advances ... which has returned tens of thousands of high-resolution images of the universe since it began Earth orbit a decade ago.

The nebula’s proximity to Earth allows telescopes like Hubble to capture high-resolution images of its intricate structures, ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

To celebrate Hubble's 35th anniversary, ESA/Hubble released a breathtaking new image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This cosmic nursery, packed with thousands of ...

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 nebula ...

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 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is always here to remind us, and a new snapshot of the distant Veil Nebula shows us that even the most bloated special effects budget can’t compare with what ...

and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them. Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space ...

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.

Hubble had already used this knowledge in his 1924 discovery that the Andromeda nebula, containing a variable star, was more than 900,000 light years from Earth -- way beyond our own galaxy -- a ...