NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us new insights into the distant future of solar systems like ours, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets of the universe and our place in it. Billions of years ago, a Sun-like star nearing the end of its life grew enormously in size to become a red
The first-of-its-kind mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is set to launch no earlier than Thursday, July 2 at 5:09 a.m. EDT (9:09 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. A robotic service spacecraft called LINK, built by Katalyst
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
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured infrared light from numerous features that were previously impossible to see beyond the thick dust of the FS Tau star system. In addition to the countless background galaxies that come into view like fireworks for America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, this image flickers with a series of protostars, or