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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured and amazing view of the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104). The galaxy is ...
The Andromeda galaxy is the galaxy next door, a very faint, fuzzy thing in the night sky, larger than a full moon. Textbooks ...
The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday ...
The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...
The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have captured amazing views of spiral galaxy NGC 2566. Credit: ...
Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 ...
The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...
See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...
By Kat Troche As summer deepens in the Northern Hemisphere, a familiar constellation rises with the galactic core of the ...
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
Key Takeaways: Charles Messier was born in Badonviller, France, on June 26, 1730, the 10th child of court bailiff Nicolas and his wife Françoise.