Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Spectacular Star-Studded Skyfield
This spectacular star-studded image shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this…
This spectacular star-studded image shows the heart of the globular cluster NGC 6638 in the constellation Sagittarius. Captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, this…
This spectacular luminescent image from the Hubble Space Telescope features multiple galaxies, perhaps most noticeably LEDA 58109, the lone galaxy in the upper right. LEDA…
This intriguing observation from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a gravitationally lensed galaxy with the long-winded identifier SGAS J143845+145407. Gravitational lensing has generated a mirror…
On Monday, July 11, President Joe Biden released one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images in a preview event at the White House…
This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio. Found in a wide variety of galaxies,…
Galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger that lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion, is captured in this stunning…
What is Dark Matter? Dark matter is a form of matter that cannot currently be observed directly, but is estimated to comprise about 85% of…
The sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius is captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble explored the heart…
White dwarf provides insight into the systemic chaos that occurs when a star dies. The violent death throes of a nearby star caused such a…
The massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351 is captured in this image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for…
Both Rocky and Icy Bodies Were Identified Among the Debris on the Surface of a White Dwarf Star “Bring out your dead!” rings in the…
Hubble Determines Mass of Black Hole Isolated Black Hole Supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* — the black hole at the center of the…
On a regular basis, the Hubble Space Telescope releases spectacular images, from incredible spiral galaxies and galactic oddballs to gorgeous pictures of the planets in…
There is a patch of the sky known as the COSMOS field, a region rich with galaxies, that was chosen for the Cosmic Evolution Survey…
Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to peer into an astronomical mystery in search…
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located approximately 53 million light-years away in the direction of the…
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away from Earth in the…
How do we measure the age and size of the universe? The search for Cepheids The top-ranked scientific justification for building the Hubble Space Telescope…