Last September, JWST took this image of a protostellar jet on the outskirts of the Milky Way. From tip to tip, the jet extends about twice the distance from the Sun to its nearest neighboring star system, α Centauri.Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Yu Cheng (NAOJ); Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) Of the black holes
Remains of an exploded star, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Summers, G. Bacon, Z. Levay and L. Frattare (Viz 3D Team, STScI) The Hubble Space Telescope is a bold expression of human curiosity. Since its launch in 1990, it has done much more than simply expand humanity’s scientific reach: it
Red, white and blue stars shine like a fluttering flare on a dark night in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NASA released this image to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, as the agency continues America’s legacy of exploration. Located in the outer halo of our Milky Way galaxy, the globular cluster NGC 6426
Like new fireworks launched against a background of dissipating smoke, blue and white stars shine brightly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this image of the LH 95 stellar nursery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. Low-mass
More than 500,000 stars shine red, white and blue in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, released to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. The image shows Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of