To celebrate its 28th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the Lagoon Nebula, 4,000 light-years away. It highlights a small part of this vast star-forming region.
It’s the first-ever glimpse of the surface of what astronomers called a Cepheid variable star — a very special kind. Polaris is a special kind of star for two reasons. As well as being ...