"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

But the meme is wrong. Many photos of spacecraft or astronauts in space don't show stars because the camera settings required to capture such brightly lit foreground objects are different than ...

Galaxies brimming with stars and even evidence of supermassive black holes can be seen in stunning new photos unveiled by NASA captured by its James Webb Space Telescope. The collection depicts ...

The "Cosmic Cliffs" are the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. This was one of the first batch of images released by NASA from the James Webb Space ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken some truly amazing pictures of stars, galaxies, and distant parts of space. These mesmerizing images show stars being born, huge clouds of gas and dust, and ...

Here are the best images it ... Here, deep, deep space is finally captured by the SPIRE camera. The constellation of Vulpecula reveals the entire assembly line of newborn stars.

THERE’S some real stars quality in the nightscapes nominated for the annual Milky Way Photographer of the Year.  Photos taken ...

The venerable old space telescope was launched on ... region that is home to more than 2,500 baby stars. Some of Hubble’s most striking images are of nebulae, which are clouds of dust and ...

It may because stars, which are actually enormous fiery spheres, often appear with spikes in telescopic images. The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, still takes images of spiky stars.

At a news conference Monday, Pettit was asked why he took so many images—670,000 ... It also shows stars from the vantage point in space. Pettit built his own star tracker, of course, to ...

Stars in the new images from the James Webb Space Telescope look sharper than they did before. And I’m not just talking about the image quality, which is astounding. I’m talking about the fact ...