NGC 1973/5/7 Is A Reflection Nebula 1/2 Degree Northeast Of The Orion Nebula. The Three NGC Objects Are

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, named the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

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The first time humans saw Earth from the Moon.

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Here is a very distant globular cluster called NGC 6229 found in the constellation Hercules, it is about 100,000 light years distant. It has a visual magnitude of 9.39. What a difference distant makes when you compare this globular cluster with the spectacular Hercules cluster (25,000 light years away) which is found in the same constellation.

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Here’s an illustration of what living on the moon could look like.

A new dwarf planet has been found within our Solar System. The newly discovered object (2014 UZ224) located beyond Pluto's orbit is believed to be large enough to qualify as a dwarf planet.

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Hubble’s first picture of the entire Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) found in the Cassiopeia constellation.

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As we look back into the history of our landscape, a much older history lies above us.

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Here is what the Earth looked like 4 billion years ago during the Hadean eon.

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The Tarantula Nebula is more than a thousand light-years in diameter, a giant star forming region within nearby satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 180 thousand light-years away. Image credit: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari.

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At the center of a spiral galaxy 11 million light-years away, the Hubble Telescope saw a bright, whitish patch surrounded by a mixture of stars, gas and dust.

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