Hubble estimates the size of a comet from deep space

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has imaged an interstellar comet. This icy body was discovered by NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on July 1, 2025, when it was 420 million miles (676 million kilometers) from the Sun. ATLAS is an asteroid impact early warning system developed […]

Hubble Captures a Tarantula

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, but this nebula is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado […]