The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

With its 2.4-meter mirror and sensitive instruments, Hubble's view of the SMC is far more detailed and vivid ... very distant objects. This image captures a small region of the SMC near the ...