Dark Nebula’s Stellar Cauldron Unveiled in Stunning Observation for Hubble’s 33rd Anniversary
Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star Birth You should know where you come from, but understanding the birth of our Sun and family of…
Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star Birth You should know where you come from, but understanding the birth of our Sun and family of…
What Is a Star? A star is an approximately spherical body of plasma, which is held together by its own gravity and prevented from collapsing…
Astronomers have discovered a rare pair of actively feeding supermassive black holes, or quasars, on the verge of colliding. This unique system, J0749+2255, was found…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of JO204, a “jellyfish galaxy” characterized by bright gas tendrils resembling jellyfish tentacles. These galaxies experience ram pressure…
A Bizarre 200,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge Links a Galaxy to Its Escaping Black Hole The universe is so capricious that even the slightest things that might go…
A Pair of Merging Galaxies Ignite Black Holes on a Collision Course Quasars are among the universe’s brightest fireworks. Scattered all across the sky, they…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the aftermath of a Type II supernova explosion in the spiral galaxy UGC 2890, which is located…
Forecast for Blustery Winds, Smoggy Hazes The outer planets beyond Mars do not have solid surfaces to affect weather as on Earth. And, sunlight is…
This luminous NASA/ESA Hubble Picture of the Week shows Z 229-15 — imaged here in exquisite detail by the Hubble Space Telescope — a celestial…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 545-kilogram…
UGCA 307 is a small irregular galaxy located approximately 26 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Corvus. It is part of the Local…
In this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, the irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies. The tenuous disc…
Never-Before-Seen Spacecraft Collision Yields Unexpected Surprises In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid’s velocity by smacking…
This movie captures the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA’s 545-kilogram Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft on…
A jellyfish galaxy with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. As Jellyfish galaxies move through…
Hubble in 1990 meant trouble. The highly touted space telescope was designed to escape Earth’s blurry atmosphere to capture unparalleled visual images of the universe….
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, with the center dominated by a massive…
Each year, the Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…