Coddington's Nebula is an obscure, fuzzy object discovered by the American astronomer Edwin Coddington (1870–1950) in 1898.

Distant planetary nebula NGC 2899 is also shown in a colorful ... the general objective of “understanding the Universe.” Edwin Hubble was the creator of the great space tool, which has taken ...

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.

But in the early 1920’s, building on the work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and others, astronomer Edwin Hubble ... stars, Hubble confirmed the true nature of the Andromeda Nebula and others.

ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation. One of the most famous images ever taken by ...

The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from ...

It was named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who showed that ... image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899, which has a nearly 40,000-degree-Fahrenheit white dwarf ...

To celebrate the Hubble telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a ...