Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius, and one of the closest bright planetary nebulae to Earth It was first discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding in 1823 and it is 650–655 ...

Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ... NASA's Hubble Finds That a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions Sep. 26, 2024 — In a surprise finding, astronomers using NASA's Hubble ...

A "ring of fire" burns over Easter island in a solar eclipse. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're ...

That's what scientists once believed, at least. Thanks to recent findings made via the Hubble Space Telescope, plasma jets spewing from hungry black holes can ignite nova explosions, resulting in ...