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Giant cosmic 'sandwich' is the largest planet-forming disk ever seen — Space photo of the weekA strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.
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Stunning array of 400 rings in a 'reflection' nebula solves a 30-year-old star-formation mystery — Space photo of the weekThe discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.
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James Webb telescope spies a monstrous molecular cloud shrouded in mystery — Space photo of the weekIn this James Webb telescope image, the gigantic molecular cloud near our galaxy's center appears as a canvas of pink and purple clouds set against a shadowy backdrop.
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Glittering new James Webb telescope image shows an 'intricate web of chaos' — Space photo of the weekThis mash-up of data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals two galaxies mid-collision, with their spiral arms overlapping and bending toward their neighbors' cores.
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Strange, 7-hour explosion from deep space is unlike anything scientists have seen — Space photo of the weekAstronomers used major telescopes across the world to probe a cosmic explosion 8 billion light-years from the solar system.
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Ethereal structure in the sky rivals 'Pillars of Creation' — Space photo of the weekThe twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan.
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Scientists map the shape of a supernova for the first time ever: Space photo of the weekAstronomers using data from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the initial "breakout" phase of a supernova is elongated, not perfectly spherical.
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Giant 'diamond ring' sparkles 4,500 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation — Space photo of the weekNASA's SOFIA observatory captured a rare image of a glowing gas ring in Cygnus X — a vast star-forming region 4,500 light-years away.
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First Vera Rubin Observatory image reveals hidden structure as long as the Milky Way trailing behind a nearby galaxy — Space photo of the weekFirst-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from the M61 galaxy, suggesting a violent past.
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