- July 8, 2025Pleiades (M45). Perhaps the most famous star cluster in the sky, its brightest stars can be seen even from the…
- July 7, 2025A massive, spacetime-warping cluster of galaxies is the setting of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. The…
- July 6, 2025Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately…
- July 5, 2025Difficult to capture, this mysterious, squid-shaped interstellar cloud spans nearly three full moons in planet Earth's sky. Discovered in 2011…
- July 4, 2025Face-on spiral galaxy NGC 6946 and open star cluster NGC 6939 share this cosmic snapshot, composed with over 68 hours…
- July 3, 2025You can see a thermonuclear explosion from a white dwarf star. Possibly two. Such explosions are known as novas and…
- July 2, 2025The Pelican Nebula (also known as IC 5070) is an H II region associated with the North America Nebula in…
June 30, 2025The subject of this week's Hubble Picture of the Week is a reflection nebula, identified as GN 04.32.8. Reflection nebulae…- June 29, 2025Rho Ophiuchi (ρ Ophiuchi) is a multiple star system in the constellation Ophiuchus. The central system has an apparent magnitude…
- June 28, 2025Big beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 is the 109th entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright Nebulae and…
- June 27, 2025An interstellar expanse of glowing gas and obscuring dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its…
- June 26, 2025This interstellar skyscape spans over 4 degrees across crowded starfields toward the constellation Sagittarius and the central Milky Way. A…
- June 25, 2025The Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory, and smaller telescopes on planet Earth are combined in this detailed portrait…
June 24, 2025Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE,…- June 23, 2025The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this Picture of the Week reached the telescope after…
June 22, 2025the International Space Station. Using precise timing, the Earth-orbiting space platform was photographed in front of a partially lit gibbous…- June 21, 2025Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered…
- June 20, 2025New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) suggest the cosmos may be much older than once believed. For…