A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

These pictures show the Tarantula Nebula, located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud ... a sparkling blue cluster near the centre of the above image have cleared ...

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud ... nebula shown here features serene ...

NGC 1333 is a busy stellar nursery, with new stars forming among the cloud of dust and gas located 960 light-years away. The beautiful image of the nebula ... to colors (Blue: F475W, Green ...

In the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way's biggest ... The center of the nebula has been cleared of gas by the bright blue cluster of stars to the right of the center. More blue stars are ...

Earlier this month, NASA officials shared the composite image of the Tarantula Nebula, some 158,000 light-years from Earth. With its blue and red ... the Large Magellanic Cloud, serving as a ...

Close-ups of the molecular cloud ... image of part of the Horsehead Nebula was also taken by JWST's other primary camera, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). With thick white and blue smoke ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about ...