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…
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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…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Rings Upon Rings
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a spiral galaxy named Messier 95 (also known as M95 or NGC 3351). Located about 35…
Hubble and Kepler Reveal First Evidence of a Moon Outside Our Solar System
Using NASA’s Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet…
Hubble Telescope Views a Glittering Ball of Stars
This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies towards the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our…
Hubble Image of the Week – Warped and Distorted
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image contains a veritable mix of different galaxies, some of which belong to the same larger structure: At the middle…
Hubble Detects Never-Before-Seen Features Around a Neutron Star
An unusual infrared light emission from a nearby neutron star detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope could indicate new features never before seen. One possibility…
Hubble Image of the Week – The Impressive Coma Cluster
In the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair) lies the impressive Coma Cluster — a structure of over a thousand galaxies bound together by gravity….
New Hubble Project Provides Improved View of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 370
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the evolution of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. The BUFFALO…
Outstanding Hubble Image Shows Fully-Illuminated Saturn and Its Rings
Cassini ended its 13-year mission at Saturn on 15 September 2017 when it plunged into the gas giant’s atmosphere, but the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
View the Awesome Power of Gravity, Hubble Observes SDSS J1138+2754
Gravity is so much a part of our daily lives that it is all too easy to forget its awesome power — but on a…
Gaia Satellite Refines Properties of Polaris Aa, Significantly Different Than Earlier Values
The North Star, Polaris, is a Cepheid variable: one whose mass, age and physical conditions generate periodic oscillations with a period proportional to the star’s…
Hubble Captures Striking Image of Nebula IRAS 05437+2502
The little-known nebula IRAS 05437+2502 billows out among the bright stars and dark dust clouds that surround it in this striking image from the Hubble…
Hubble Image of the Week – GOODS-South Deep UV Legacy Field View
Following on from last week’s Picture of the Week, this week we showcase the second part of the Hubble Deep UV (HDUV) Legacy Field, the…