The result is sharp images with excellent color fidelity ... even with magnifications above 200x. The two stars of Albireo (Beta [β] Cygni), my favorite double star, displayed a striking golden ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is ...

A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.

In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...

Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) has captured another stunningly close look at the surface of our sun. DKIST has collected ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in ...

Caldwell 71: This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of stars reveals a portion of the open cluster Caldwell 71. Most open clusters reside in the arms of spiral galaxies, and their stars ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514 ...

The anniversary celebration also included a countdown of images captured over the Hubble Space Telescope's lifetime so far, ...