And also this week, the Australian government approved the extension of one of the world's largest gas facilities until 2070. But this decision isn't about climate change. At least not under ...

NGC 7789 in Cassiopeia is particularly notable for its huge mass of relatively faint stars, all set in a rich Milky Way star field, which makes for a great scene in binoculars or a small telescope.

The extension of the North West Shelf gas project to 2070 has been approved by the Environment Minister Murray Watt. The proposal has been under assessment by the federal government for six years.

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy is located 43 million light-years away in the constellation Crater (The Cup).

A captive-bred Mexican fireleg tarantula is seen up close outside Tarantulas of Mexico, a breeding facility in the northwestern state of Jalisco. Firelegs and other species of tarantulas are ...

The Eagle Nebula (M16) is a grand star-forming area. Its pillars of dust and gas are nurseries for new stars, and thus it is a center of celestial activity. The Carina Nebula (NGC 3372 ...

but they pale in comparison to the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070). The Tarantula resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own located 160,000 light-years away. This nebula ...