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20th BFM Awards - Paris

Jean-Marie Messier at the 20th BFM Awards at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on January 13, 2025. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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20th BFM Awards - Paris

Jean-Marie Messier at the 20th BFM Awards at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on January 13, 2025. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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20th BFM Awards - Paris

Jean-Marie Messier at the 20th BFM Awards at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on January 13, 2025. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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20th BFM Awards - Paris

Jean-Marie Messier at the 20th BFM Awards at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on January 13, 2025. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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20th BFM Awards - Paris

Jean-Marie Messier at the 20th BFM Awards at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on January 13, 2025. Photo by Jerome Domine/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Webb Reveals Sombrero Galaxy's Hidden Details

Handout photo dated November 25, 2024 shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), resolving the clumpy nature of the dust along the galaxy’s outer ring. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) in stunning mid-infrared detail. This oblong galaxy, named for its resemblance to a wide-brimmed hat, reveals intricate clumps of dust along its outer ring, illuminated in shades of blue and white. Speckles of stars scatter its inner disk, while distant galaxies dot the black cosmic canvas in the background. The new image, taken with Webb's MIRI instrument, offers unprecedented insight into the galaxy’s structure and the faint traces of young star-forming regions. November 25, 2024. Photo by NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Webb Reveals Sombrero Galaxy's Hidden Details

Handout photo dated November 25, 2024 shows the view of the famous Sombrero Galaxy in mid-infrared light (top) and visible light (bottom). The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals the smooth inner disk of the galaxy, while the Hubble Space Telescope’s visible-light image shows the large and extended glow of the central bulge of stars. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) in stunning mid-infrared detail. This oblong galaxy, named for its resemblance to a wide-brimmed hat, reveals intricate clumps of dust along its outer ring, illuminated in shades of blue and white. Speckles of stars scatter its inner disk, while distant galaxies dot the black cosmic canvas in the background. The new image, taken with Webb's MIRI instrument, offers unprecedented insight into the galaxy’s structure and the faint traces of young star-forming regions. November 25, 2024. Photo by NASA via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hubble Spots the Little Dumbbell Nebula

Handout - In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, or M76, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The name ‘Little Dumbbell’ comes from its shape that is a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases resembling a balloon that’s been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the center. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen. Photo by NASA, ESA, STScI via ABACAPRESS.COM

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Space card game

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A woman holds ''Messier Cards'' for a card game invented by college students and other space fans in Tokushima Prefecture, at the University of Tokushima in Tokushima City on Nov. 20, 2010.

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Space card game

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - A woman holds ''Messier Cards'' for a card game invented by college students and other space fans in Tokushima Prefecture, at the University of Tokushima in Tokushima City on Nov. 20, 2010. (Kyodo)