Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The SMC is a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. In 3.75 billion years, Earth's Milky Way Galaxy will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy. Over the next several billion years, the two galaxies will rip each other ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary.

and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy's nearest neighbors. This dwarf galaxy looms large on the ...

Star cluster: This 100 million-year-old globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and a ... Star Factory: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope ...

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms. The galaxy, NGC 5530, is located 40 ...