NGC 6302, a swirling cloud of dust and stars, has unfolded into a majestic butterfly-shaped nebula. According to NASA, the star at the center of this nebula is one of the hottest in the Milky Way, ...
On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...
The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...