Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Murray This gorgeous new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a bustling nearby star forming region called the Tarantula Nebula. Given its name due to its complex, web-like internal ...

It is also the highest resolution image ever made of the M1-Crab Nebula. The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula. Credit: T.A.Rector (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) & Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA ...

It turned out to be the Horsehead Nebula. Here's a close up, as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty ... The scene pictured here is on the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula, the largest and most productive star-forming region in the ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects, such as the Great Orion Nebula.

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as ... the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about ...