A stunning new photo captures the ... Meanwhile, the waxing crescent moon was about 30% illuminated, according to In-the-Sky.org. The images captured by the Virtual Telescope Project offer a ...

Why it's so special: This James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... is made up mainly of hydrogen and helium. —Space photo of the week: Hubble captures a cosmic snow angel created by a bright, ...

Astronomers have released the most comprehensive photograph of the Andromeda galaxy, which contains over 200 million stars. This astounding accomplishment sheds light on the galaxy's development and ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, western Russia and eastern Greenland in an event known as a lunar occultation. Astronomer ...

It was a century ago that Edwin Hubble himself established the fact that the faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon ... Space Telescope, turning 35 this year, ...

Over more than ten years, the Hubble Space Telescope has ... based on a truly Herculean effort by the space telescope. It took over ten years to photograph individual sections of the comparatively ...

Hubble can only detect stars brighter than our Sun, enabling the telescope to capture just a fraction of Andromeda’s estimated total population of 1 trillion stars. The galaxy can be seen with the ...

In addition, it may be home to upward of 1 trillion stars, many of which are close to the telescope's detection limit. Even Hubble had to take its time. The 2.5-gigapixel Andromeda photo is the ...