The VISTA telescope has captured stunning new images of the Orion Nebula.

On April 23, 2009, NASA’s Swift satellite captured a glimpse of the most distant astronomical object ever seen—the fading afterglow of a massive stellar explosion called a gamma-ray burst.

The Hubble Space Telescope discovers something new about star formation in dwarf galaxies.

To understand how the modern Universe came to be, astronomers turn to computer models, programs that follow the physical laws of the Universe. Scientists use these models to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies and quasars in the universe.