As well as some of the darkest skies on the U.S. East Coast, it's also the nation's southernmost point. At 24.5 degrees north ...
This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...
The "cosmic pinwheel" that astronomers feared could one day shower Earth with lethal gamma rays may not be as dangerous as ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling spiral galaxy paired with a prominent star, both in the ...
Scientists have made the record-breaking detection of oxygen in an ancient galaxy that existed just 300 million years after ...
The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) announced the launch of their new jersey made of biodegradable materials. This jersey, along ...
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M17 stars in a cosmic vista
You could forgive M17 for having an identity crisis. Observers refer to this emission region as the Omega, the Swan, and even the Checkmark Nebula. M17 doesn't even know what constellation to call ...
Created from debris trails from Halley’s Comet, the eta Aquariids can be seen from both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres ...
Earth exoplanets orbiting the closest single-star system to us, called Barnard's Star. As detailed in a new paper published ...
After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...