Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Supernova
What Is a Supernova? Supernovae are dramatic explosions that take place during the final stages of the death of a supermassive star. Most stages of…
Hubble Space Telescope News
Hubble Space Telescope: Calling on a Galactic Neighbor
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. LEDA 48062 is the faint, sparse, amorphous galaxy…
Hubble Finds Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Mysterious “Ghost” Stars Wandering Around for Billions of Years
Orphaned Stars Were Lost into Intergalactic Space Long Ago In the 1960s sci-fi television show “Lost in Space” a small family of would-be planetary colonists…
Hubble Explores the Dazzling Stellar Wonders of NGC 6355
The scattered stars of the globular cluster NGC 6355 are strewn across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This globular cluster lies less…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Saturn
What Is Saturn? Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, and the second largest and second most massive planet…
Radiant Blue Swirls: Hubble Captures Majestic Barred Spiral Galaxy
Against an inky black backdrop, the blue swirls of spiral galaxy NGC 6956 stand out radiantly. NGC 6956 is a barred spiral galaxy, a common…
Hubble Uncovers a Galactic Wonder: Strange Galaxy Captured in Stunning Detail
The peculiar spiral galaxy ESO 415-19, which is located approximately 450 million light-years away from Earth, stretches lazily across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
NASA Discovers Pair of Super-Earths With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Find Two Exoplanets May Be Mostly Water In the 1995 post-apocalyptic action film “Waterworld” Earth’s polar ice caps have completely melted,…
Hubble Space Telescope Captures Festive and Free-Floating Scene
Just in time for Christmas, this new Picture of the Week from the Hubble Space Telescope features a glistening scene in holiday red. This festive…
Secrets of an Earlier Universe Revealed by Red-Supergiant Supernova
Detailed telescope images help scientists learn more about the Universe two billion years after the Big Bang. An international research team has measured the size…
Hubble Spots a Gigantic Cosmic Smokescreen
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope features a portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 that appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded…
Hubble Detects Mysterious Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System
Exhaust from Infalling Comets Makes Space a Dusty Place Imagine walking into a room at night, turning off all the lights, and closing the shades….
Sparkling Dreams: Hubble Space Telescope Head in the Clouds
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Located only about 200,000 light-years from Earth,…
New Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space
A New Walking Robot Design Researchers have created a cutting-edge walking robot that might revolutionize large space construction projects. They tested the feasibility of the…
Celestial Fireworks Display: Hubble Captures Shreds of Luridly Colored Supernova Remnant
In this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shreds of the luridly colored supernova remnant DEM L 190 seem to billow across the screen….
Hubble Hunts an Unusual Galaxy – Distorted by Gravity and Twisted Into a Colossal Ring
Stealing the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391. The Arp-Madore catalogue is a compilation of…
Hubble Spots a Titanic Stellar Collision That Rattles Space and Time
Over 299,000,000 meters a second — an ultra-fast jet blasting from a star crash. Neutron stars are the surviving “trash-compacted” cores of massive stars that…
Hubble Space Telescope: Clouded Vision
In this celestial image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, a small, dense cloud of gas and dust called CB 130-3 blots out the center…
