Hubble Spots A Close Relationship in “The Dragon”
Some galaxies are closer friends than others. While many live their own separate, solitary lives, others stray a little too close to a near neighbor…
Some galaxies are closer friends than others. While many live their own separate, solitary lives, others stray a little too close to a near neighbor…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a peek at the location of the most energetic outburst ever seen in the universe — a blast…
For this Picture of the Week, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful eye towards an emission line galaxy called NGC 3749. When astronomers…
The Universe is simply so vast that it can be difficult to maintain a sense of scale. Many galaxies we see through telescopes such as…
The pair of strange, luminescent creatures at play in this image are actually galaxies — realms of millions upon millions of stars. This galactic duo…
Clemson team collaborates to quantify one of the most fundamental laws of the cosmos. Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists…
NASA’s Hubble Captures a Dozen Galaxy Doppelgangers The “funhouse mirror” has delighted carnival-goers for more than a century by twisting peoples’ images into wildly distorted…
Within a galaxy hosting around 300 billion stars, here the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a mere handful or two — just about enough…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a galaxy in the distant regions of the Universe which appears duplicated at least 12 times…
A study led by Dr. Jeremy Lim and his Research Assistant, Miss Emily Wong, at the Department of Physics of The University of Hong Kong…
Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can be deceiving. This image of…
Researchers observe huge outflow of gas extending far beyond a galaxy for the first time. Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy…
In celebration of Halloween, this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 4653, a galaxy just over 80 million light-years from Earth. That may sound like quite…
A group of astronomers led by the University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the universe is expanding more rapidly than previously…
You’ve probably never noticed it, but our solar system is moving along at quite a clip. Stars in the outer reaches of the Milky Way,…
When astronomers use the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the deep sky, asteroids from our Solar System can leave their marks on the captured…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it…