From the mystique of the Pillars of Creation to a sneak peek into the the deepest parts of our universe, check out these 10 ...

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

31, the great spiral nebula in Andromeda, 750,000 light-years from the earth. They did the job with the largest radio telescope (a trellis-like “dish” of wires) at Jodrell Bank Experimental ...

The essential features of this hypothesis are that the Solar System has been formed from a spiral nebula, and that the planets have not been detached from the central mass through its rotation but ...

The headline read: Finds Spiral Nebulae are Stellar Systems: "Dr. Hubbell Confirms View That They Are 'Island Universes'; Similar to Our Own." The American astronomer at the center of the article ...

The second key was the work of Vesto Slipher, who had investigated the spiral nebulae, before Hubble's Andromeda discovery. These bodies emit light which can be split into its component colors on ...

Here are some facts that you need to know about nebula and images captured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope.