On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...

Young globular cluster NGC 1850 hosts two stellar generations, red giants, blue stars, and a black hole in Magellanic Cloud.

Read A sectional rendering of NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and ...

NGC 1385 is a beautifully detailed spiral galaxy captured by NASA’s James Webb and Hubble Space Telescopes, located about 68 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. NGC 1987 is an open ...

Abstract: We report on Hubble Space Telescope/ACS photometry of the rich intermediate-age star cluster NGC 1846 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which clearly reveals the presence of a double ...

Picture it: viewing a giant telescope emerging under the same sky. In Chile's Atacama Desert, a new wonder is slowly emerging — the European Southern Observatory's Extremely Large Telescope (ELT ...

The ELT is on its way to becoming the largest optical telescope in the world, and as it rises beneath some of the clearest ...

The word itself comes from galaktikós kyklos, or “milky circle,” the ancient Greek term for the Milky Way, our home galaxy.

NASA's Hubble Telescope has unveiled stunning images of dying stars, revealing their striking beauty even in death. These ...