Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

New image from the Hubble Space Telescope peers into a dusty region of space - home to some of the largest stars know to man.

It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Its cosmic corsage tells a story of death and rebirth. Within a few million years — a blink of an eye in the universe’s life — the gas and dust will either become budding young stars and planetary ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

Doradus 30, also known as 30 Doradus or the Tarantula Nebula, is a massive star-forming region located in the Large ...

The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

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 ...