This week’s small-telescope target is globular cluster NGC 2808 in the southern constellation Carina the Keel. It shines at magnitude 6.2 and has a diameter of 13.8′. That means it covers 20 ...

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The Cosmic Cliffs, a cloudy hotbed of star formation in the Carina constellation. Studying this region, said Megan Reiter of Rice University, “could be a template for what ...

Westerlund 2 is a young and compact star cluster situated about 20,000 light-years away in the constellation Carina. Thought to be between one and two million years old, it lies within the star ...

Hubble captures a stunning view of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104), famous for its brilliant central core and wide, dark dust lanes. Seen edge-on from Earth, its unique shape looks like a Mexican hat, ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...