Hubble Image of the Week – NGC 4861
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 4861, which is located roughly 30 million light-years away from Earth. The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 4861, which is located roughly 30 million light-years away from Earth. The lesser-known constellation of Canes Venatici…
The Hitomi X-ray Observatory has discovered something quite serene: calm at the heart of the Perseus cluster. Scientists from the international Hitomi mission reported July…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers view vivid auroras on the poles of Jupiter. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is best known…
This eight-minute video details Jan Woerner’s plan to build up a permanent base station on the Moon. Jan Woerner, Director General of the European Space…
This Hubble image reveals the final act of celestial beauty before the long fade into cosmic history. Invisibly buried in the center of this colorful…
Surrounded by dust, this new Hubble image shows the young forming star known as HBC 1. The star is in an immature and adolescent phase…
ESA’s XMM-Newton reveals that winds around a supermassive black hole located 800 million light-years from Earth are moving at 23,000–33,000 km/s, about 10% the speed…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, which is located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The…
This new Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 2768. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous core of NGC 2768 slowly fades outwards…
ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory celebrate twenty years of space-based science. After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2768, which is located 60 million light-years away. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous…
This image from ESA’s Mars Express features the small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin. All around is evidence for…
Using 10 years of data from Mars Express, scientists have for the first time combined remote sensing observations of localized ultraviolet aurora with in situ…
This new Cassini image helps reveal the different features of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, the terrain is covered…
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies — galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
This newly released Hubble image shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4639. NGC 4639 is a beautiful example of a type of galaxy known as a…
The Cassini Spacecraft views the moon Dione as it transits Saturn. Saturn’s moon Dione crosses the face of the giant planet in this view, a…
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light-years away in the constellation of…