The Top 100 Hubble Pictures Series. Today we are travelling to the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This is the biggest HII nebula in the local cluster of galaxies, and ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, situated 100 million light-years from Earth in the Leo Minor constellation.

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a remarkable image of the spiral galaxy IC 3225, which resembles a cannonball moving through space. Located approximately 100 million light-years away in ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

Zolt Levay, of the Imaging Team at the Space Telescope Science Institute that runs Hubble, showed National Geographic how he transforms these images. The red, green, and blue filters he uses on ...

The repair worked, and Hubble began to deliver crystal-clear images. Hubble's images have helped to pin down the age of the universe, which the expansion rate of pulsating stars suggests is some ...

This colorful new view combines images that were taken in three different filters by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and highlights hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen atoms. It is showing only a tiny ...

More recently, the Hubble space telescope also captured images of mysterious spokes in Saturn’s rings, drawing astronomers quizzical looks closer to home. Josh Hawkins has been writing for over ...