The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

The Hubble image reveals that the dust inside ... peculiar shape and star-forming activity that classify it as a lenticular galaxy." Lenticular galaxies don’t have the characteristic arms ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A new Hubble image highlights the intricacies of a distant galaxy glowing with a bright white core surrounded by complex dust structures. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures the ...

SEE ALSO: Hubble Telescope to Snap 6 New Views of Universe The image reveals new details of a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, which is located about 6 billion light-years away from Earth.

(Hubble is a joint project of NASA and ESA.) The SMC can be viewed in the southern sky. Most of the galaxy lies in the constellation Tucana, the Toucan. However, a small section of the galaxy ...

Hubble observed NGC 5042 in six wavelength bands from the ultraviolet to infrared to create this multicolored portrait. The galaxy's cream-colored center is packed with ancient stars, and the ...

Washington (CNN)-- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years -- farther than ever before in time and space -- to reveal a "primordial population" of galaxies never seen before.

Located 15,000 light-years from Earth, at the end of an outer spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy, Sh2-284 lacks ... as a "low-metallicity" region. The Hubble Space Telescope image offers an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3430, located 100 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor. The image reveals NGC 3430 as a ...