This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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Image: Hubble captures young stars changing their environmentsThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...
Galactic neighbor: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a massive panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), which is situated just over 2.5 million light-years away ...
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the giant galaxy M87 shows a 3,000-light-year-long jet of plasma blasting from the galaxy's 6.5-billion-solar-mass central black hole. The blowtorch-like jet ...
The Hubble Telescope captured the central region of Messier 96, a spiral galaxy similar in size to the Milky Way. NASA Hubble Space Telescope recently captured this beautiful image of NGC 4826 ...
the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31. The Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size ... that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae ...
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size ... that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Charles Messier also produced a catalog of over 100 prominent nebulae ...
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