Jeffrey Anderson, commander of 6th Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, said during the ceremony. Mount Whitney’s ability to allow him to simultaneously command U.S. and NATO forces ...

The Helix Nebula is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Aquarius. This object is one of the closest of all the bright planetary nebulae to Earth. The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

Hubble reveals the vibrant star-forming complexities of the Large Magellanic Cloud’s Tarantula Nebula, a spectacular display of cosmic dust and colorful stellar phenomena. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C ...