Hubble Images – A Step Toward Illuminating The Elusive Nature of Dark Matter
A new look at Hubble images of galaxies could be a step toward illuminating the elusive nature of dark matter, the unobservable material that makes…
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Hubble Telescope Opens Its Eye Again
For three weeks in October, Hubble’s eyes on the Universe closed. On the evening of Friday 5 October, the orbiting observatory put itself into safe…
Hubble Discovers Fast Evaporating Warm Neptune Exoplanet GJ 3470b
Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census…
Hubble Reveals Evidence of Active Nucleus Driving Hot Bubbles of Gas
3C196.1 is a massive elliptical galaxy, the brightest member of a cluster of galaxies about three billion light-years away that is notable for its strong…
Stunning Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 100
This stunning spiral galaxy is Messier 100 in the constellation Coma Berenices, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — not for the first…
Hubble Image of the Week – Clusters Within Clusters
This image, from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), reveals thousands of globular clusters lying at the core of a galaxy…
Hubble Uncovers Thousands of Star Clusters Scattered Among Galaxies
Gazing across 300 million light-years into a monstrous city of galaxies, astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to do a comprehensive census of some…
Hubble Image of the Week – Tangled Cosmic Edition
This dark, tangled web is an object named SNR 0454-67.2. It formed in a very violent fashion — it is a supernova remnant, created after…
Hubble Image of the Week – Different Generations
Star clusters are common structures throughout the Universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. This star-filled image,…
Hubble Image of the Week – Of Bent Time and Jellyfish
At first glance, a bright blue crescent immediately jumps out of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image: is it a bird? A plane? Evidence of…
Hubble Image of the Week – Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy ESO 338-4
This captivating image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 shows a lonely dwarf galaxy, a staggering 100 million light-years away from…
Hubble Telescope Reveals a Giant Cosmic ‘Bat Shadow’
Shadows on Earth can be mysterious and foreboding, but when they occur in space, they can convey information we otherwise could not know. In a…
Hubble Uses Gravitational Lensing to View Galaxy Cluster SDSS J0915+3826
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope doesn’t usually get much assistance from its celestial subjects — but to take this image, the telescope opted for teamwork…
Hubble Space Telescope Captures the Ghost of Cassiopeia
Powerful gushers of energy from seething stars can sculpt eerie-looking figures with long, flowing veils of gas and dust. One striking example is “the Ghost…
Hubble Image of the Week – Unbarred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5033
This Picture of the Week shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The…
Hubble Views Glittering Star Cluster in Nearby Galaxy
This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our…
Hubble Telescope on the Hunt for Newborn Stars
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows a patch of space filled with galaxies of all shapes,…
Hubble Telescope in Safe Mode, Issues Being Diagnosed
NASA is working to resume science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode on Friday, October 5, shortly after 6:00…