Here are top five images by NASA Hubble space telescope: This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust that looks a little like a caterpillar is a newborn star – a protostar.

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

The closer in that material is to a central protostar, the faster around the ... and is seen in both the Hubble and JWST observations. That nebula is roughly 90 billion kilometers across, 20 ...

The protostar, called HH 30, is what's known in astronomy as a Herbig-Haro object – a bright patch of cosmic emission associated with newborn stars. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an unprecedented, crystal-clear look at the far reaches of the cosmos. Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years away. ESA/Hubble & NASA, C.

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 ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to ...