As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous ...
The nebula's iconic blue hue comes from the light of star Rigel, whose intense radiation and stellar winds interact with the ...
In that moment, all of humanity was captured in a ghostly fragment of a pixel swimming through an unrelenting sea of darkness — a "Pale Blue Dot" lost in a void. Carl Sagan — the astronomer ...
“The section of the nebula shown here features serene blue ... Dust absorbs and scatters blue light more than red light, allowing more of the red light to reach our telescopes, which makes ...
Hubble’s Blue Bubble: The distinctive blue ... helium and other gases. Carina Nebula’s ‘Mystic Mountain’: This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope ...
Discovered in the 18th century, the Helix Nebula, located about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, belongs ...