"Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to ...

Another stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a plume of warm dust and gas formed by jets from a baby star.

Many spiral galaxies contain a bar structure that crosses through the center. This photo is of the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

Scientists using the ACT have captured the clearest images of the universe first light, refining its age and expansion rate.

Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) A recent image from the Hubble Space ... an exceptionally high rate of star formation ...