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This video explores Euclid's “First Light” images, released in November 2023, less than a year after its launch. These stunning debut images from ESA's space telescope offer an unparalleled view of ...
From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...
Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life ...
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...
Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...
The galactic masterpiece combines over 100 exposures to reveal previously unseen features of stars in formation.
“At NASA, we’re thrilled to share the untold story of our James Webb Space Telescope in our new film Cosmic Dawn, celebrating not just the discoveries, but the extraordinary people who made it ...
It also shows stars from the vantage point in space. Pettit built his own star tracker, of course, to make this happen. And finally, Earth's atmosphere is a showstopper by itself.
More Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located ...
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to look into the Flame Nebula, and found free-floating objects called brown dwarfs, which are larger than Jupiter but too small to become stars.
HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.