the Europa Clipper will be able to orient itself for the long trek to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. As such, onboard are a pair of small cameras called star trackers, which capture the images for ...

Here’s how it works. Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in ...

The Hubble image of NGC 3603 shows a massive star cluster, with hot blue stars creating a large cavity in the gas. Hubble's image captures NGC 346, a bright star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, ...

Meanwhile, a set of cameras serving a different purpose is snapping photos in the space between Earth and Jupiter. Called star trackers ... map and examine the moon's mysterious fractures ...

Star formation is the process by which stars are born from dense regions of gas and dust in interstellar space The process starts when some of those clumps reach a critical mass, allowing them to ...

The stars’ dust rings give the system the appearance of a tree’s cross-section, but on a stellar scale. The system, located roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured in a Webb image ...

The first full moon ... stars—Pollux and Castor in Gemini. The "Wolf Moon" as seen from Tehatta, West Bengal, India, on Jan. 13, 2025.(Photo by Soumyabrata ... [+] Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...

Observations show Andromeda has a more active star formation history than the Milky Way, potentially due to a past galactic collision. NASA recently released images of the Andromeda galaxy ...

Nebula NGC 3603 is located in the Carina–Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way. It lies about 20,000 light-years from the Solar System. Thousands of young stars shine within NGC 3603 which is one of ...

It will be in the constellation Leo, hanging above the bright star Regulus. The moon will also appear bright and full on Feb. 11 and 13. The brightest star in the constellation Leo, Regulus is ...