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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Related: The best Hubble Space Telescope images of all time! The bar-like structure of NGC 4536 may funnel gas inward towards the center, creating a dense region where star formation is highly active.

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 ...

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 ...