Two European telescopes get into a nebula

The region of the Eagle Nebula has a depth of tens of light years and is in the process of giving life to new stars.

European astronomy has scored two major successes in the study of outer space.

Hubble captures a stunning image of the brightest galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a spiral galaxy with bars that can help understand the Milky Way.

Most of the known spiral galaxies fall into this category of "slash" - which is defined by its pronounced structure bars across their centers.

The existence of this structure can indicate the age of the galaxy.

Two thirds of the nearest galaxies are young and bar, while only a fifth of the oldest and most distant have it.

The new image is a milestone in the long history of the Hubble Space Telescope in the stunning astronomical imaging.

The orbits of the planets

Why all planets occupy the same orbital plane around? The best guess is that all astronomical move in the same orbital plane because they were born of one and the same flat disk of matter.

Theories suggest that the solar system was originally a huge mass of rotating gas and dust, which was perhaps initially spherical. At some point in this process of condensation and becoming more pronounced rotation,