The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Horse-head Nebula. It is the sharpest infrared imagery to date. The iconic nebula is about 1300 light-years away. Credit: ...

Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image ... the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided eye below the three stars that form ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula ... Often, these fine features are only visible through larger telescopes. The ...

Don't go looking for it—the flickering star is 2.2 million light-years away, and is 1/100,000th the brightness of the faintest star visible to the human eye. Yet, a century ago, its discovery by ...

In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied ... It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object ...

Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA ... are only visible through larger telescopes. The Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula formally known as NGC 6543.

It can be seen with the naked eye ... Hubble first established that this so-called "spiral nebula" was approximately 2.5 million light years away from our own Milky Way galaxy. Now, the space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its history. The Hubble survey, assembled from over 1,000 orbits and ...