The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail.

Explore 6 of the most breathtaking space pictures captured by NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope, revealing the universe's wonders.

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This image shows a magnified view of the magnificent spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA ...

M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away ... Large Millimetre Array in the Chilean desert and the Hubble Telescope gave astronomers a glimpse of star formation.

This 2011 image by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a face-on view of the spiral galaxy M51. It was, until now, the most detailed image of the Whirlpool galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, S.

It takes an instrument with some real observing power to see the 76,900 light-year-wide galaxy M51 in its full glory, however. For instance, when astronomers looked at M51 with the Hubble Space ...

Gaia wasn’t an imaging telescope like Hubble or the James Webb Space ... features two interacting galaxies known as M51, or the Whirlpool Galaxy. It is believed that the smaller galaxy (called ...

Astronomers may have discovered a planet in a distant galaxy. Astronomers identified the possible exoplanet, M51-ULS-1b ... supergiant star that appears in Hubble Space Telescope images.

The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail. Astronomers ...