"The rotation around one another causes the shape of the wings for this cosmic butterfly ... The Twin Jet Nebula was captured in vivid detail by the lens of the Hubble Space Telescope.

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula is the dynamo powering ... ancestors were just beginning to farm. This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to ...

Hubble once again lifts the veil on a famous—and frequently photographed—supernova remnant: the Veil Nebula. The remnant of a star roughly 20 times as massive as the sun that exploded about ...

The nebula is known as Hen 2-104, located several thousand light years from the earth. It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a ...

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant. The Veil Nebula is roughly 2,400 light-years away in ...

Hubble revisited the Veil Nebula for a more detailed look at its colorful hot gases. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Levay About 2,000 light years from Earth are the brilliant remnants of the ...

astronomers used Hubble to capture this festive, colorful look at the tentacled Southern Crab Nebula. Butterfly Nebula: What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful ...