A Cluster of Stars! This cluster of stars is known as “NGC 602”, and it lies approximately 200,000 light years away from Earth. This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, and if you look close enough to the left of this image, you can see a spiral Galaxy in the distance!
On the left, an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows Cygnus X-1, outlined in a red box. Cygnus X-1 is located near large active regions of star formation in the Milky Way, as seen in this image that...
IC 63 — nicknamed the Ghost Nebula — is about 550 light-years from Earth. The nebula is classified as both a reflection nebula — as it is reflecting the light of a nearby star — and as an emission nebula...
Webb finally arrived at his new home, L2. The last refueling was done on January 24 or yesterday and was shifted to that point. It was a moment that everyone at NASA feared. This is because you need to speed...
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