‘Double’ Galaxy Mystifies Hubble Astronomers – “We Were Really Stumped”
Galaxy Cluster’s Gravity Produces Mirror Images of Distant Galaxy Behind It Gazing into the universe is like looking into a funhouse mirror. That’s because gravity…
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Hubble Captures a Dangerous Dance Over 100 Million Light-Years From Earth
This Picture of the Week features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined, they have a collective name — Arp 91. This delicate galactic dance…
Running on Empty: Astronomers Solve 12-Billion-Year-Old Mystery of Stalled Galaxies
Unprecedent measurements confirm galaxies idle when they run out of cold gas. New research, published in Nature and led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has just answered…
“No One Has Ever Seen This Before” – Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are Accelerating
The Winds at the Outer Edge Are ‘Winning the Race’ in This Enormous Storm System Listen up, race fans! The innermost lane no longer has…
More Than Meets the Eye: Hubble Misses Vast Amounts of Energy
Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is…
“Reddening” Clusters and Constellations: Hubble Captures Densely Packed Sparkling Starfield Near the Center of the Milky Way
This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21…
Supernova Requiem: Rerun of Massive Blast From Exploding Star Expected To Appear in 2037
Giant Galaxy Cluster Magnifies the Light from a Distant Supernova and Splits It into Multiple Images People over the centuries haven’t been shy about making…
Hubble Captures the Final Acts of a Monster Star
This comparison view shows puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of a monster star. You can explore the detail…
Hubble Find Surprises Astronomers: White Dwarfs Can Still Undergo Stable Thermonuclear Activity
Could dying stars hold the secret to looking younger? New evidence from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggests that white dwarfs could continue to burn…
Stunning Hubble Space Telescope Image of a Glittering Globular Cluster
This star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6717, which lies more than 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. NGC…
Hubble Captures Rare Celestial Phenomenon: A Herbig–Haro Object
This striking image features a relatively rare celestial phenomenon known as a Herbig–Haro object. This particular Herbig–Haro object is named HH111, and was imaged by…
5 Things: Hubble Space Telescope – The Cosmos Is Often Stranger Than We Could Imagine [Video]
The universe is a wild and wonderful place. Hubble has shown us that the cosmos is more colorful and often stranger than we ever could…
First Evidence of Water Vapor at Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede – May Hold More Water Than All of Earth’s Oceans
Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapor in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s moon…
Hubble Spots a Dazzling Cluster in the Cloud
This Picture of the Week shows an open cluster known as NGC 2164, which was first discovered in 1826 by a Scottish astronomer named James…
Doomed Celestial Visitor May Have Been Piece of Prehistoric Comet
Comet Atlas May Have Been a Blast From the Past When our very early ancestors were colonizing the Nile River Valley, 5,000 years ago at…
Hubble Captures the Brilliant Heart of the Furnace
This jewel-bright image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1385, a spiral galaxy 68 million light-years away from Earth, which lies in the…
Bizarre, Metallic Star Spotted Hurtling Out of the Milky Way at 2 Million Miles an Hour
About 2,000 light-years away from Earth, there is a star catapulting toward the edge of the Milky Way. This particular star, known as LP 40−365,…
Hubble Seeing Quintuple – But Appearances Can Be Deceiving
Clustered at the center of this image are six luminous spots of light, four of them forming a circle around a central pair. Appearances can…
