Hubble Captures Magnificent Grand Spiral Galaxy Face-On
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 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…
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation finds the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3227, engaged in a turbulent gravitational dance with its companion, the elliptical galaxy…
What Is Dark Energy? Dark energy is the name given to the as yet unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate….
What Is a Comet? A comet is an icy, rocky mass that has passed close by the Sun within our Solar System, and has thus…
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Located around 100 million light-years from Earth,…
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, shows a strange pair of spiral galaxies approximately 800 million…
The subdued red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1 are partially obscured in this view by a dense scattering of piercingly blue stars. In…
Three Decades of Space Telescope Observations Converge on a Precise Value for the Hubble Constant Science history will record that the search for the expansion…
What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about…
Spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, is located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this sparkling, face-on…
This glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558, and it was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys….
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to view galaxies of all shapes and sizes from nearly every angle. When a galaxy is seen edge-on,…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a unique object in the distant, early Universe that is a crucial link between star-forming galaxies and the…
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye – an appropriately diminutive name for a dwarf…
What Is an Elliptical Galaxy? Elliptical galaxies have an even, ellipsoidal shape. They typically contain a much greater proportion of older stars than spiral galaxies…
The tattered remnant of a supernova — a titanic explosion marking the end of the life of a dying star — is shown in this…