Hubble's sharp resolution allows observers to pore over the galaxy's details, showing that it has traits of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. Its core appears unusually smooth and gas-poor, traits ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy that's hard to categorize. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab ...

Astronomers deployed the Hubble Space Telescope over the course of a decade to conduct 600 separate observations to produce an extraordinary mosaic of the great spiral galaxy. Astronomer John S.

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy whose asymmetric appearance may be the result of a galactic tug of war. Located 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, the ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, operated by NASA and ESA, has captured a stunning, high-resolution image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 6000, situated around 102 million light-years away in the ...

The cluster can offer fresh insights into how stars of all sizes form and evolve. Star clusters are among the many objects observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. These gravitationally bound groups of ...