One of the most violent and wondrous cosmic events is starburst, in which hundreds of millions of stars are born all at once. These are far rarer nowadays than they were in the early universe, but they do still happen... and the massive energy released during these periods can alter the future histories of entire…

This is Palomar 2, one of 15 globular star clusters originally discovered by Hubble—not the space telescope, but its legendary namesake, as Edwin Hubble was part of the project that first discovered these clusters back in the 1950s.

I have seen enough space images. A lot. I admit sometimes I am bored of them. But today's Hubble photo hit me right in my mind:

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In the Game of Science, you either win or you go back to the drawing board. Students from the Albert Einstein Institute created these Game of Thrones-style sigils to pay tribute to some of the most exciting projects in physics and space exploration, complete with house words for each.

You're looking at one of the most far-flung star explosions ever recorded. Dubbed Supernova UDS10Wil (aka "SN Wilson," after Woodrow Wilson), it detonated more than 10 billion years ago, but only recently has its light found its way to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

This image from the Hubble Telescope shows part of the Carina Nebula, located roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. This massive cosmic cloud is a stellar incubator, but the newborn star found inside has to fight its way out by firing off powerful, super-fast jets. These energetic, narrowly focused jets are known as…

NASA has just released a photo captured by its Hubble Space Telescope that reveals a deep cosmic entity that looks suspiciously like a Space Invader. Not an alien race bent on human destruction, but rather a cluster of galaxies located billions of light years from Earth (dubbed "Abel 68"), observations of which bear a…

In another triumph for citizen science, physician and astrophotographer Robert Gendler has created the most glorious image we've ever seen of the spiral galaxy M106. He did it by combining his own ground-based photography of the galaxy with images taken by the Hubble space telescope. Click to enlarge.

Located some 150 million light-years from Earth, NGC 922 is admittedly a little far for a quick New Year's Eve getaway. But as this Hubble image reveals, the views are great, just so long as you avoid the black holes.