
The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers witnessed this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, and this 3D animation shows what probably happened in the sky.
For astronomers, Omega Centauri has been an outcast amongst globular clusters for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory provides a surprising explanation for Omega Centauri’s peculiarities.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago...
By scrutinising images from Hubble Ultra Deep Field – the deepest images of the sky ever made – researchers have gained fascinating new insights about the distant universe. Knowledge of our cosmic roots.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime template for star formation studies...
This is the trailer for ESA's Anniversary Movie "Hubble - 15 Years of Discovery". More info on it can be found on: http://www.spacetelescope...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found the first clear evidence of high altitude haze or clouds in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet...
After confirming a high degree of safety for both the Shuttle and its crew, NASA has given the green light for a fifth Servicing Mission to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...
A science video presenting panoramas and images of the planet Mars, including the "McMurdo" panorama, taken by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit during the MER Mission...
For the first time ever, astronomers have been creating a three—dimensional map of how the dark matter is distributed across the Univer...
By scrutinising the Hubble Ultra Deep field - the deepest image of the sky ever made - the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever...
Progress in telescopic astronomy would have come to a grinding halt in the second half of the twentieth century if it weren?t for the digital revolution...