Bars and Baby Stars in This Pinwheeling Spiral Galaxy Spotted by Hubble
The galaxy depicted in this Hubble Picture of the Week is a barred spiral known as NGC 7541, seen here as viewed by the NASA/ESA…
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Happy Lunar New Year From the Hubble Space Telescope [Video]
Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary origins of…
Supermassive Influence Creates Peculiar Galaxy, Beautifully Streaked With Tendrils
This peculiar galaxy, beautifully streaked with tendrils of reddish dust, is captured here in wonderful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy is…
Astronomers Discover the Best Places to Look for “Genesis II” and Intelligent Alien Life
Orange Dwarf Stars Most Likely to Host Planets To date astronomers have discovered over 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Statistically, there should be over 100…
H0LiCOW! Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe’s Expansion That Adds to Troubling Discrepancy
New Hubble Measurement Strengthens Discrepancy in Universe’s Expansion Rate People use the phrase “Holy Cow” to express excitement. Playing with that phrase, researchers from an…
Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 1803 in the Painter’s Easel
This bright, somewhat blob-like object — seen in this stunning picture as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — is a galaxy named NGC…
Imposter or the Real Deal? Astronomers Finally Discover the Truth
This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a close-up view of a galaxy named NGC 2770. NGC 2770 is intriguing, as over…
“Cold Dark Matter” Breakthrough As Hubble Detects Smallest Known Dark Matter Clumps
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result…
Two Supermassive Black Holes Caught in a Galaxy Crash Seen in Unprecedented Detail
ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to…
“Godzilla Galaxy” With 1 Trillion Stars Fed by Filamentary Structure of Intergalactic Space
NASA’s Hubble Surveys Gigantic Galaxy: Majestic Spiral Has Slowly Grown Over Billions of Years Galaxies are like snowflakes. Though the universe contains innumerable galaxies flung…
Astronomers Build Incredible 3D Visualization of Exploded Star Using NASA’s Great Observatories [Video]
Movie Dissects the Nebula’s Intricate Nested Structure In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers witnessed the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the…
Hubble Sights Galaxy’s Celestial Sequins in Berenice’s Hair
This smattering of celestial sequins is a spiral galaxy named NGC 4455, located in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). This might sound…
Darkest Galaxies in the Universe Provide New Clues on Dark Matter
A study by Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) provides important information on its composition and on its interaction with luminous matter. They are…
Radio Jupiter: Seeing the Giant Planet in a Brilliant New Light
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is also the brightest planet at radio frequencies. While radio astronomy often focuses on more…
Hubble Spots Galaxy With Active Galactic Nucleus
This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust, and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away….
‘Cotton Candy’ Planet Mysteries Unravel – Nothing Like Them Exists in Our Solar System
“Super-Puffs” may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it’s actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the…
Comparing the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes: From Ultraviolet to Infrared
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…
Whirling Discs and Bulges in the Table Mountain
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (The Table Mountain), lying about 85…