The Webb Space Telescope captured a chance alignment of a protostellar outflow and a spiral galaxy in a dazzling example of the cosmos' weirdness.
The freshly spotted galaxy offers a rare glimpse of our universe when it was young, less than 300 million years after the Big Bang.
The nascent space telescope has collected plenty of data since it launched, and now has produced the largest images of space taken from space.
The Hubble Space Telescope recently imaged a nearly edge-on view of a lenticular galaxy. It's weird!
Reminiscent of the Eye of Sauron and psychedelic whirlpools, the new images reveal never-before-seen details of galaxies.
The galaxy was seen in Pandora’s Cluster, a previous target of the space observatory.
The Euclid space telescope, on a mission to chart the elusive dark universe, has captured its first images, revealing countless galaxies and a nearby nebula.
The bright white spot in the sky is located near a powerful cosmic magnifying glass.
Webb is casting the universe in a new light, but the space telescope's discovery of a cosmological question mark has us scratching our heads.
It's been a year since the $10 billion observatory has started releasing scientific images.
The Royal Observatory Greenwich will announce the winners of its astrophotography contest later this year. Check out these photos from the shortlist.
A barred spiral galaxy 17 million light-years from Earth is the latest target of NASA’s most perceptive observatory.
Star clusters, galaxies, and gas clouds are mesmerizing when seen across many wavelengths of light.
The latest shot in the space telescope’s portfolio is a piercing gaze into a distant part of the sky.
Our glorious spiral home apparently has a doppelganger in the early universe.
From black holes to the oldest light in the universe, we saw a remarkable cosmos this year.
15 images showcase the beauty and awesome size of the cosmos.
A new shot from the Hubble Space Telescope reminds us that Webb isn’t the only show in town.
You’ve never seen the spiral-armed Messier 74 quite like this.
This new view of the cosmos is even larger than Webb's previous deep field image.
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