Being thankful: Hubble sees a baby star's shadow play

A protostar's disk casts a long shadow across the sky.

By Phil Plait 1 week ago

Hubble takes a series of giant outer planet family portraits

Gas giant photos c/o Hubble.

By Phil Plait 2 weeks ago

Hubble portrait of a galaxy shows it shines in stellar birth and death

NGC 4666 is gorgeous, and shows us the circle of stellar life.

By Phil Plait 1 month ago

The complex diversity of the gorgeous globular cluster M5

Globulars are far less simple than we used to think.

By Phil Plait 1 month ago

The last days of a massive star before it went supernova

Hubble and TESS observations reveal the last few days of a star's life.

By Phil Plait 1 month ago

Why is Europa spewing most of its water vapor out of one side?

Europa is thought to have a subsurface ocean, so why is most of its water vapor only coming out one end?

By Elizabeth Rayne 1 month ago

In Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a wind is rising

By Phil Plait 2 months ago

The Molten Ring Galaxy is blasting out a trillion suns worth of infrared radiation

By Phil Plait 2 months ago

How is an intermediate mass black hole like the Cookie Monster? They’re both really sloppy eaters

By Phil Plait 2 months ago

This lopsided galaxy is a mess. But why?

By Phil Plait 2 months ago