Hubble Captures the Unusual Shredded Remains of a Massive Cosmic Explosion
These cosmic ribbons of gas have been left behind by a titanic stellar explosion called a supernova. DEM L249 is thought to be the remnant…
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Hubble Space Telescope Is Back Online – Partially
The Hubble Space Telescope has been in ‘safe mode’ since October 23, with all of the science instruments offline and unavailable for observations. However, engineers…
Hubble Spies Cleopatra’s Eye in the Sky
Cleopatra’s Eye, or NGC 1535, is a planetary nebula in the constellation Eridanus. This nebula has an unusual structure that is similar to the better-known…
Hubble Team Successfully Recovers Advanced Camera for Surveys, Investigation Continues
The Hubble team successfully recovered the Advanced Camera for Surveys instrument on November 7. The instrument has started taking science observations once again. Hubble’s other…
Hubble Spots a Cosmological Curiosity
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the…
Hubble Is in Safe Mode Again – Here Are the Steps NASA Is Taking To Investigate
NASA is continuing work to resolve an issue that has suspended science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope. The science instruments entered a safe mode…
Glitches Send Hubble Space Telescope Into Safe Mode – NASA Team Investigating
NASA is continuing to investigate why the instruments in the Hubble Space Telescope recently went into safe mode configuration, suspending science operations. The instruments are…
Hubble Captures Brilliant Cosmic Fireworks
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy NGC 6984, an elegant spiral galaxy in the constellation Indus roughly 200 million…
Hubble Watches a Cosmic Bat Shadow “Flapping”
The young star HBC 672 is known by its nickname of Bat Shadow because of its wing-like shadow feature. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has…
Hubble Spots Massive Space “Pumpkin”
What looks like two glowing eyes and a crooked carved smile in this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope snapshot is the early stages of a…
Hubble Space Telescope Celebrates Halloween With A Glowering Carbon Star
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween this year with a striking observation of the carbon star CW Leonis, which resembles a baleful orange eye…
Hubble Space Telescope Spotted Something Scary [Video]
Creepy Look At A Star Weaving A Dust Web Sometimes, the sudden demise of stars seems rather foreboding. This picture of the CW Leonis, a…
Hubble Space Telescope Experiences Déjà Vu
This jewel-bright Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy NGC 2903. This image was captured using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide…
Hubble Spies Galaxy Doomed To End Catastrophically
This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting galaxies which lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth…
Supernova Déjà-Vu: Astronomers Spot the Same Stellar Explosion Three Times – And Predict a Fourth Sighting in 16 Years
An enormous amount of gravity from a cluster of distant galaxies causes space to curve so much that light from them is bent and emanated…
Hubble Finds Mysterious Replenishment of Water Vapor on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Ice Sublimating Off the Surface Replenishes a Tenuous Envelope You would think that living half-a-billion miles from the Sun would be no place to call…
Giant Cosmic Cotton Ball: A Dark Matter Deficient Galaxy
The galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 resides in a field of galaxies about sixty-five million light-years away. Its low mass, only about two hundred million solar-masses, makes…
Invisible Galactic Gale: Superwind From Spectacularly Energetic Supernova Explosions
NGC 4666 takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic spiral galaxy lies about 80 million light-years away in…
