Astronomers have known for years that our Milky Way and its closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, (a.k.a M31) are being…
Here's a excellent video compilation featuring images from the Hubble Space Telescope, along with music by Kanye West and quotes…
[/caption] Just look at the kind of stunning images that are buried in the archives from the Hubble Space Telescope!…
[/caption] Like the blade of a magical weapon from a fantasy tale, the northern edge of spiral galaxy NGC 891…
[/caption] Venus moving across the face of the Sun, from our vantage point here on Earth, is such a rare…
[/caption] Astronomers have found four nearby white dwarf stars surrounded by disks of material that could be the remains of…
Loading player... 22 years ago today, the Hubble Space Telescope launched into orbit. After overcoming initial problems, Hubble has gone…
[/caption] Happy birthday to the Hubble Space Telescope! On April 24, 1990, HST was launched into low Earth orbit. Now,…
[/caption] Astronomers have finally succeeded in capturing the first Earth-based images of the curious and fleeting auroras of Uranus using…
[/caption] Although somewhat blobby and deformed, this is in fact a spiral galaxy, located in the southern constellation Hydra. Imaged…