As scientists and space enthusiasts commemorate the Hubble Space Telescope's 35 years in orbit, the mission team joined in by ...

Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...

Ionized atoms ejected from a dying star form the bright swirling clouds of this planetary nebula. Named Kohoutek ... It is part of the Milky Way galaxy. That is, for now: the relative brief ...

This is a planetary nebula named Kohoutek 4-55, a member of the Milky Way galaxy situated just 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus (the Swan). Planetary nebulae are the spectacular ...