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Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In August, we have two full moons in ...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In July, the Delta Aquarid meteors pa...

The Webb Telescope's mirrors are coated in an extremely thin film of gold. This gold layer, only a few millionths of an inch thick, enables the mir...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." Don't miss June's Venus transit, the ...

This computer simulation shows a star being shredded by the gravity of a massive black hole. Some of the stellar debris falls into the black hole a...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." May brings us the Eta Aquarid meteor ...

Visit the scene of Hubble's 22nd anniversary image and explore a rich tapestry of star birth and stellar destruction.

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In April, Saturn reaches opposition a...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In March, the constellations of sprin...

The James Webb Space Telescope has multiple science instruments, but only one of them, the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), sees light in the mid-in...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In February, Orion strides across the...

A 3-D visualization of the star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 (a.k.a. S106) takes us through a wonderland of stars and glowing gas.

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A 3-D model of the Helix Nebula shows a structure much more complex than suspected. The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula, created when gas is exp...

This visualization creates a three-dimensional tour of several dark pillars of cool gas and dust in the Carina Nebula.

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This animation starts with a flat projection of the entire sky. In this projection the sky is bisected by the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. Hubble...

This slow pan of the Butterfly or Bug Nebula captures the detail available in the Hubble image of the planetary nebula, located 3,800 light-years a...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In January, see the Quadrantid meteor...

The James Webb Space Telescope will experience intense forces as it launches into space. To ensure that the different parts of the observatory won'...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In December, Mars and Saturn are morn...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." In November, Pisces swims across the ...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." Views of the Andromeda Galaxy, Jupite...

Backyard stargazers get a monthly guide to the northern hemisphere's skywatching events with "Tonight's Sky." September is all wet! Look for Septem...

At Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, a cavernous chamber is being modified for use in testing the Webb Telescope. Environmental testing is pa...