NGC 6334, The Cat’s Paw Nebula
NGC 6334 is one of the most active areas of massive star formation in our…
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A rare radio galaxy
A striking orange and blue streak fills this new image from the NASA’s Hubble Space…
A 340-million pixel starscape from Paranal
The very colourful Rho Ophiuchi and Antares region features prominently to the right, as well…
Sombrero Galaxy M104
With an apparent magnitude of 8, the Sombrero galaxy is beyond the limit of…
Rosette Nebula: The Heart of a Rose
A recent Chandra study of the cluster on the right side of the image, named…
NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode
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Swirling blue arms shimmer in this galaxy
The bright blue spots along its arms signal star clusters that are held together by…
A rosy barred spiral galaxy
The pinkish-red regions line the galaxy’s spiral arms and signal ionized hydrogen gas, which are…
In this galaxy, colours tell a story
Although barred galaxies usually see “a burst of star formation followed by a slow decay,”…
A supermassive black hole dwells at the center of this galaxy
The supermassive black hole at the centre of NGC 6951 is surrounded by a “circumnuclear…
A Virgo cluster galaxy
Like other Virgo cluster galaxies, NGC 4654 has “an asymmetric distribution of stars and neutral…
Portrait of a Globular Cluster
Hubble used both its Advanced Camera For Surveys and its Wide Field Camera 3 in this observation, taking advantage…
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NGC 346
The spacecraft Returned To Science Operations June 14 after being offline for several weeks due…
NGC 1672
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 unveils…
M74
A stunning face-on spiral galaxy, M74 was discovered in 1780 by Charles Messier’s observing assistant,…
The Eagle Nebula
The Eagle Nebula, also known as the Star Queen Nebula or Messier 16 (M16 for…
Christmas Tree Galaxy Cluster
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) left astronomers feeling festive recently as it allowed them…
Cassiopeia A (NIRCam)
December 2023 saw the release of Webb’s NIRCam image of Cassiopeia A (Cas A), an…
Star cluster IC 348
This view of young star cluster IC 348 was captured as part of Webb observations…