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Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The triple-star ...

Ninety-three of the objects have been imaged by the Hubble Space ... gallery that shows their glittering, shining shapes in stunning detail. Messier began his list of cosmic treasures while ...

but the mind-bending distortions visible in this impressive image taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 are actually caused by a cosmic phenomenon. The bright galaxies at the center of the frame ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals clouds of gas and dust near ... something once considered little more than an annoyance: cosmic dust. For many years, astronomers thought of dust ...

A new image of deep space reveals a distant globular ... stellar bodies like a swarm of glittering bees swarming around a cosmic beehive. The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope focuses ...

It kind of looks like a snow globe -- or maybe like the glittering ornament atop a massive ... But this image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 92. Messier 92 is a globular cluster ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of Arp 184, also known as NGC 1961, a peculiar spiral galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the ...

Observatories routinely release "holiday themed" heavenly photos come late December, and this time the Hubble Space Telescope bears good cheer for 2012 in the form of a cosmic Christmas ornament.

Not far from the larger galaxy is a smaller one, seen in visible light images using the Hubble Space Telescope. Observations taken using the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI), which is optimized for ...

Ninety-three of the objects have been imaged by the Hubble Space ... gallery that shows their glittering, shining shapes in stunning detail. Messier began his list of cosmic treasures while ...