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Pink indicates lower energy X-rays and blue higher energy in Chandras image of the galactic nucleus.

American space agency NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a stunning image of a beautiful open star cluster called NGC 1858, located in an area full of star-forming regions.

NASA often shares spectacular photos from the universe and their latest photo of a star cluster is winning the Internet. The photo looks so magical that many are finding it hard to believe that its real.

The Alpine area is particularly vulnerable to global warming. This European mountain range, like the Arctic, is growing greener

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. See how it happened in our "On This Day In Space" series!

On This Day in Space! Feb. 26, 1966: 1st launch of Saturn 1B rocket Space 26/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space NASAs first Saturn 1B rocket launches into space carrying the first Apollo spacecraft on Feb. 26, 1966. On Feb. 26, 1966, NASA launched its new Saturn IB rocket on its first test flight.  Also known as the Uprated Saturn I, the Saturn IB was built for the Apollo program. With a more powerful upper stage, it was designed to carry the Apollo Command/Serv...

On This Day in Space! Feb. 21, 1931: Germanys 1st liquid-fuel rocket (barely) launches Space 2/21/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space A look at the Hückel-Winkler 1, the first German-built liquid fueled rocket, which launched on Feb. 21, 1931. On Feb. 21, 1931, Germany launched its first liquid-fueled rocket … sort of.  The rocket only made it about 10 feet off the ground. To be fair, the rocket itself was only two feet tall, so it did achieve an altitude of abou...

On This Day in Space! Feb. 20, 1962: John Glenn becomes 1st American to orbit Earth Space 20/02/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space John Glenn aboard the spacecraft Friendship 7 during his historic orbital mission of Feb. 20, 1962. John Glenn was the third American to launch into space and the third human to orbit Earth. Two Soviet cosmonauts had orbited Earth before him. He blasted off from Cape Canaveral in a Mercury spacecraft named Friendship 7 and circled the Ea...

On This Day in Space! Jan. 30, 1964: Ranger 6 launches to the moon Space 30/01/2021 © Provided by Space An artists illustration of a NASA Ranger spacecraft at the moon. On January 30, 1964, NASA launched the Ranger 6 spacecraft on a mission to obtain the first-ever close-up images of the surface of the moon. The spacecraft carried six television cameras to transmit videos and images of the moon, but the cameras failed, and no images were ever returned.  This was the sixth mission failure ...

On This Day in Space! Jan. 27, 1967: Apollo 1 fire kills NASA astronauts Space 27/01/2021 Hanneke Weitering © Provided by Space Apollo 1 astronauts (left to right) Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee posing in front of Launch Complex 34 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. All three were killed when a fire blazed up in their capsule during a ground test on Jan. 27, 1967. On January 27, 1967, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were ki...