NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the glittering spiral galaxy NGC 6951, where a central bar fuels a spectacular ring of ...

Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

a nebula or another galaxy. Hubble's famous "VAR!" plate from the discovery. The crossed out "N" in the upper right shows that Hubble initially thought he had observed a nova, but realized the star ...

Hubble has captured a striking new image of NGC 2775, a galaxy that defies easy classification. Blending features of spirals, ellipticals, and lenticulars, its puzzling structure may be the result of ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope began as a costly failure — a flawed mirror that blurred the universe. After a ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognisable. Viewed nearly edge on, the galaxy’s softly luminous bulge and sharply outlined ...

A view of LEDA 1313424, the Bullseye Galaxy, by Hubble. Image: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) The Hubble Space Telescope just imaged a massive bullseye in space: LEDA 1313424, ...

The Methuselah Star, also known asHD 140283, has long been a subject of fascination among astronomers. Its age, initially ...

A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy cluster in question is Abell 209, located 2.8 billion light-years away in ...

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week, which incorporates six different wavelengths of light. ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker You might ...