(SPACE.com) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, revealing the intricate epitaph of a long-dead star. The new image superimposes one of the largest ...

A new Hubble Space Telescope image offers the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years from ...

This composite image of the Crab Nebula was ... (from the Spitzer Space Telescope), the visible-light image featuring the hot filamentary structures in green (from the Hubble Space Telescope ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is always here to remind us, and a new snapshot of the distant Veil Nebula shows us that even the most bloated special effects budget can’t compare with what ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

That work was done in the 1920s by Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer for whom the telescope is named. This stunning image shows another part of the Tarantula Nebula, where clouds of colorful ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...

and the Hubble Space Telescope can see them. Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and it ... for example in the Northern Hemisphere in January, you can spot the Crab Nebula, which has a difficulty rating of two, or Hubble ...

Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

Hubble Telescope image of the Horsehead Nebula ... Arabic and Chinese astronomers marveled at a supernova that created the Crab Nebula. Since then, thousands more have been identified and ...