American Observatory in Chile has been used to capture an amazing view of a star-forming region known as the Lobster Nebula. It is 8000 light-years away from Earth. Credit: Images and Videos: ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...

The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by Hubble in its decades of operation.

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

However, we do see several blue and white stars shining through. The Crab Nebula is about as famous as a space cloud can get—it's been imaged by most telescopes, including Webb. This image shows ...

It lies just south of the Orion Nebula (M42). Yet another pair ties for ... This open cluster lies in the center of Cancer the Crab. Sharp-eyed observers have no problem seeing M44 with naked ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

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This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

In 1949, astronomers using these directions spotted the first visible object outside the solar system that was associated with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star ...