It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Ancient ‘white dwarf’ stars explode and die in more ways than was thought, and observing these violent cosmic deaths could ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Westerlund 2 cluster marks Hubble's 25th year in orbit, celebrating 25 years of discoveries, stunning images, and groundbreaking science. The Hubble ...

Edwin Hubble seated at the 2.5-metre reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California. (Edwin P. Hubble Papers/Huntington Library) He identified a star called V1, a Cepheid ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is famous ... that we are much smaller in the grand scheme of things than we thought. Edwin Hubble would be amazed at the detail in the new image of Andromeda.

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest in ...

Edwin Hubble was young and ambitious. At the of age 30, he arrived at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California just in time to use the new Hooker 100-inch telescope, at the time the largest ...