Astronomers are fascinated by new images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope that appear to show a smiley face in our vast universe.

NGC 4698 galaxy: NASA and ESA released a Hubble image in September 2026 showing the inner core of this Virgo Cluster spiral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bright, dense cluster of hot, massive stars in a galaxy that existed 1.4 billion years after the big bang has been found helping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "Black Eye Galaxy" is captured in this new composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST. | Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, ...

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the unusual structure of NGC 4698, a spiral galaxy about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Its tilted central ...

Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected—ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang. That galaxy contains ...

There are many galaxies in the universe, and some are more interesting than others due to their shape and composition. This is the case for M88, a spiral galaxy located about 63 million light-years ...

In his 18 years of life, freshman astrophysics student Julian Shapiro has discovered what some astronomers spend entire ...

Extragalactic globular clusters millions of light-years away are hiding in your astroimages. Here’s how to find them.

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