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Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star ...

Sometimes even scientists get lucky. Yale University astronomer Imad Pasha was scanning some ground-based images when he stumbled across a galaxy boasting several rings. Because the object's name, ...

A new image of deep space reveals a distant globular ... stellar bodies like a swarm of glittering bees swarming around a cosmic beehive. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope focuses ...

Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations taken using the Keck Cosmic ... is why the rings glitter so brightly.

Astronomy Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientists Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door Astronomy Space photo ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

As a relatively nearby site of star formation, the Orion Nebula is a frequent target of astronomers and the Hubble Space Telescope. By studying the way stellar outflows shape the surrounding gas ...

Observatories routinely release "holiday themed" heavenly photos come late December, and this time the Hubble Space Telescope bears good cheer for 2012 in the form of a cosmic Christmas ornament.

These New Year’s Day fireworks, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope, are a little late ‚ but in their defense, they had to travel 50,000 light years to get here. Globular cluster NGC 6355 ...