Hubble Space Telescope Spies a Tenuous Diffuse Galaxy
In this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a hazy patch of light. This wispy object is…
In this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 appears as a hazy patch of light. This wispy object is…
The electromagnetic spectrum is a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. From long to short wavelength, the EM spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 32nd birthday with a magnificent view of the Hickson Compact Group 40, an extraordinary close-knit grouping of…
Dwarf galaxies are small galaxies made up of a few billion stars. Compared to their larger cousins, which can contain hundreds of billions of stars,…
NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd birthday with a spectacular look at The Hickson Compact Group 40, an unusual close-knit collection of five…
Two merging galaxies in the VV689 system — nicknamed the Angel Wing — feature in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Unlike chance…
An international effort led by astrophysicists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and the Technical University of Denmark, have identified a distant object…
Bizarre, Evolutionary Missing Link Uncovered in Hubble Deep Survey of Galaxies The universe is so saturated with galaxies that even the weirdest things can go…
4-Billion-Year-Old Relic From The Early Solar System Is Headed This Way Denizens of deep space, comets are among the oldest objects in the solar system….
The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame of this Wide Field Camera 3 observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. M91 lies approximately 55 million…
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears. With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process.” This…
Sizzling Worlds Vaporize Most of the Dust in Their Atmospheres “When you’re hot, you’re hot!” crooned country singer Jerry Reed in a top 1971 pop…
The lazily winding spiral arms of the galaxy NGC 5921 snake across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies approximately 80…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after…
A lucky cosmic alignment has revealed a single source of light in the first billion years after the big bang, setting up a major confirmation…
Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
This cosmic portrait — captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 — shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC…