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This is a sampling of the host galaxies of long-duration gamma-ray bursts taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Gamma-ray bursts...

Six Hubble images in a grid of three across and two down. Each is a gamma-ray burst in a host galaxy. The images are orange-red and white with hints of yellow.

Astronomers have gotten creative in trying to trace the elusive cosmic web, the large-scale backbone of the cosmos. Researchers turned...

Black background with a series of bright-pink filaments radiating out randomly in all directions. Below are three boxes that looks at details of the filaments.

This three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter, an invisible form of matter...

Top: Three views going back in time show slices of the cosmos. Bottom: A computer simulated, 3-D map of the distribution of dark matter.

This composite image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 (MACS J0717, for short), where four separate galaxy clusters were...

A black background is dotted with galaxies and a few foreground stars. Blobs of purple, blue, and reddish-purple denote temperature of matter.

This is an artist's concept of the early stages of the young star FU Orionis (FU Ori) outburst, surrounded by...

Artist's concept of early stages of the young star FU Orionis outburst. The star, a bright yellow sphere near the center, and its fluffy disk of gas and dust are slightly tilted, extending from the top left corner to the bottom right. The swirling disk is bright yellow close to the star and gradually transitions to dark orange moving toward the edges of the frame. The top left and right corners reveal a black, starless background.

This artist's concept shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, in the foreground as it passes through the gaseous halo...

A whitish, whirlpool-like galaxy at middle of top edge, and a tadpole-shaped structure sweeps from left to right across lower half. A label pointing to outer, left of galaxy reads “Earth.” Faint, purple haze labeled “Milky Way Halo” surrounds galaxy and stretches to graphic’s edges. The tadpole-shaped object is the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, with its own halo and streaming tail. Semi-circular, progressively darker layers of purple labeled “LMC Halo” surround the LMC, which appears roughly circular, with a central, light-yellow bar. Cloud-like features sprinkled with white specks surround this bar. Trailing the LMC is a large, tail-like feature labeled “Stream.” At the bottom left corner of graphic are several small, bright points of light labeled “Quasars.” Three light blue lines point from the label “Earth” through the LMC’s halo, and to three corresponding quasars. At the bottom, right corner is the label “Artist’s Concept.”

This artist's concept illustrates the Large Magellanic Cloud's (LMC's) encounter with the Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo. In the top...

A 3-panel graphic labeled “artist’s concept” at bottom, right corner. Each of the three panels shows the same whitish, whirlpool-like spiral galaxy at middle of top edge. A faint, purple haze surrounds galaxy and stretches to panel’s edges. At the middle of the right side of the first panel, a white dot surrounded by fuzzy, lighter purple halo approaches. In middle panel, a pronounced, light purple bow shock develops to left part of the halo. The right part of halo is being stripped and blown back into a streaming tail of gas. The bottom panel shows the tail becoming longer and more defined as the now tadpole-like object curves below the spiral galaxy and sweeps toward the upper left.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a spiral galaxy, named UGC 10043. We don’t see the galaxy’s spiral arms...

A spiral galaxy seen directly from the side, such that its disk looks like a narrow diagonal band across the image. A band of dark dust covers the disk in the center most of the way out to the ends, and the disk glows around that. In the center of the galaxy, a whitish circle of light bulges out above and below the disk. Each end of the disk curves slightly. The background is black and mostly empty.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image depicts the cosmic tangle that is MCG+05-31-045, a pair of interacting galaxies located 390...

In the center is a large, oval-shaped galaxy, with a shining, ringed core. Left of its center is a second, smaller galaxy with two spiral arms. The galaxy pair is so close that they appear to be merging: a tail of material with a few glowing spots connects from one of the smaller galaxy’s spiral arms to the larger galaxy. A faint halo surrounds both galaxies. Several stars are visible around the pair.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in...

A spiral galaxy with an oval-shaped disk. Two large arms curve out away from the ends of the disk. Bright pink patches and dark reddish threads of dust fill the arms. The bright pink patches indicate where stars are forming. The core is very bright and filled with stars. Some large stars appear in front of the galaxy. Directly under the point where the right arm joins the disk, a fading supernova is visible as a green dot.

[left] A Hubble Space Telescope false-color view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. Hubble detects...

A two-panel image split down the middle vertically. At the left is the Vega disk as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The disk is perfectly circular, and at the center is a black spot blocking out the bright glow of a star. Closer to the center, the disk is white. Radial striations extend out from the center, giving a ripple effect to the disk like the end of a sausage casing. The outer edge of the circular disk is blue. At the right, the Webb image of the disk is an orange colored, smooth, fuzzy halo. The inner disk is whiter toward the center, and there is darker lane between the inner disk and the more orange outer disk. The disk is also perfectly circular, with a black circle in the center blocking light from the star.

The top-left half of the image is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a 100-billion-mile-wide disk of dust around the summer star Vega. The disk is represented in blue. The color trails to white as we get closer to the center of the disk. The black spot at the center blocks out the bright glow of the hot young star. The disk is perfectly circular because we are looking down on top of it. The lower-right half of the image is a view from the James Webb Space Telescope, which reveals the glow of warm dust in the disk's halo that is colored orange. The disk is brighter toward the center. There is a notable dip in surface brightness between the inner and outer disk.

This star chart for M83 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M83

This star chart for M3 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Annotated star chart of Messier 3 for the southern hemisphere.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 3225.

A spiral galaxy with a disk that glows visibly from the center. It has faint dust threaded through it. A spiral arm curves around the left edge of the disk and is noticeably denser with bright blue spots that hold hot and new stars. On the opposite side, the disk stretches out into a short tail where it covers a distant background galaxy. Other distant galaxies and some nearby stars are visible are also visible in this image.

This video features five frames spanning from 2014 to 2023 of R Aquarii, a symbiotic binary star that lies approximately...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in...

A bright binary star surrounded by a colorful loops of nebula on the black background of space. One loop is vertical the other is horizontal across the center of the image.

In this image, two three-dimensional shapes (top) of Uranus are compared to the actual views of the planet from NASA's...

A four-panel image. The top two panels are diagrams of Uranus – spheres with gridlines going longitudinally and latitudinally. On the top left, the view from Hubble, the southern pole of the planet faces 3 o’clock. On the top right, the view from New Horizons, the southern pole faces 10 o’clock. The bottom left panel is Hubble’s actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The bottom right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (left) and NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft (right) image the planet Uranus.

A two panel image. The left panel is Hubble’s actual view of Uranus – the planet is a light blue sphere, with a white circle covering the right half of the planet (the southern pole). The right panel is the actual view of Uranus from New Horizons. The planet appears as a tiny whiteish dot.

Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter...

Eight Hubble images of the giant planet Jupiter spanning approximately 90 days between December 2023 and March 2024.

This time-lapse movie is assembled from Hubble Space Telescope observations spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024)...

Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter...

Eight Hubble images showing Jupiter's Great Red Spot as it changes over time from December 2023 to March 2024.

The nearby barred-spiral galaxy NGC 1068 serves as a proxy for helping astronomer understand the fireworks taking place at the...

Spiral galaxy NGC 1069 fills the image, a majestic spiral of glowing gas and dark dust with long, winding arms. A callout box points to the center of the galaxy. Within the callout box are glowing, red and orange clouds of hydrogen gas.

This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies, and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy...

Green, orange, blue and purple blobs of glowing light mingle with the shining galaxies in a massive cluster. Blue and green is concentrated in the middle and orange and purple is in splotches on the outskirts.

Through the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured three different moments in the explosion of a very...

The top box shows galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a callout box indicating the area where the lensed supernova images were found. The bottom box shows an expanded version of the callout box flanked by Hubble on the left and a galaxy on the right. Light path lines between the two, intersecting the image, show how the light from the supernova in the galaxy was split and bent by the gravitational lens.

This graphic shows the location of the infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope in a wider view of the...

Left half of the image is the entire NGC 2174 nebula. A white square indicates the location of the Hubble infrared image at right. The nebula appears like an oval cloud ringed by rusty-brown gas and filled with glowing blue gas dotted with stars. Right half: Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a rusty-brown dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This graphic compares visible-light and infrared views of the same detailed area in the star-forming nebula NGC 2174 from the...

Left half of the image: Visible light shows a black to rusty-brown cloud outlined by illuminated, golden clouds. The nebula is sent against a glowing blue cloud dotted with stars. Right half of the image: Infrared light shows a dust cloud dotted with a few bright stars. Hazy pillars of gas and dust rise up toward the right. A bluish-white glow fills the lower-right quadrant. The haze is more transparent as you move toward the upper right corner. Background is dotted with stars.

This animation shows the motion of a white dwarf star passing in front of a distant background star. During the...

This Hubble image shows several blue, loop-shaped objects that actually are multiple images of the same galaxy. The gravitational lens...

Several bright elliptical and spiral galaxies cluster near the image's center, while many others dot the field of view. Elongated, blue ellipses around the central cluster are a distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy.

This star chart for Caldwell 65 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for C65

This star chart for Caldwell 56 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for C56

This star chart for M74 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M74

This star chart for M110 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

star chart showing location in night sky of M110

This star chart for Caldwell 23 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for C23

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

M33 locator chart

This star chart for M33 represents the view from mid-northern latitudes for the given month and time.

M33 locator chart

This star chart for M32 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M32

This star chart for M31 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

locator star chart for M31

This star chart for Caldwell 63 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

A star chart shows C63 above the constellation Aquarius, in the northwestern night sky in October at 10pm.

This star chart for Caldwell 22 represents the view from mid-southern latitudes for the given month and time.

Line drawings of constellations pinpoint the location of Caldwell 22