Few space images are as iconic as those of the Horsehead Nebula. Its shape makes it instantly recognizable. Over the…
In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy about 150 million light-years away called UGC 5189A. The…
Twenty thousand years ago, a star in the constellation Cygnus went supernova. Like all supernovae, the explosion released a staggering…
The Hubble Space Telescope, to which we owe our current estimates for the age of the universe and the first…
If we had to rely solely on spacecraft to learn about the outer planets, we wouldn't be making great progress.…
If it weren't for supernova remnants we wouldn't have much knowledge of supernovae themselves. If a supernova explosion is the…
On January 8th, an important piece of equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope went down. The Wide Field Camera 3…
Hubble’s view of massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745. The large field of view is a combination of 18 separate Hubble…
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small patch of sky…
[/caption] Just look at the kind of stunning images that are buried in the archives from the Hubble Space Telescope!…