Hubble Spots Cosmic Flapping “Bat Shadow” in Outer Space [Video]
Sometimes nicknames turn out to be closer to reality than you might imagine. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a striking image of a fledgling star’s…
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Hubble Spies “Knife Edge Galaxy” About 50 Million Light-Years From Earth
The galaxy known as NGC 5907 stretches wide across this image. Appearing as an elongated line of stars and dark dust, the galaxy is categorized…
Stars Gone Haywire Revealed in Stunning New Hubble Space Telescope Images
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates its full range of imaging capabilities with two new images of planetary nebulae. The images depict two nearby young…
Starburst Galaxy: A Bright Find Predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity
Seen here in incredible detail, thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the starburst galaxy formally known as PLCK G045.1+61.1. The galaxy appears as…
Hubble Space Telescope Spots One Stunning Galaxy Among Millions
Looking deep into the Universe, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope catches a passing glimpse of the numerous arm-like structures that sweep around this barred spiral…
Westerlund 2 Revealed: In Planet Formation, It’s Location, Location, Location
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are finding that planets have a tough time forming in the rough-and-tumble central region of the massive, crowded star…
Stellar Glitter in a Field of Black – But All Is Not What It Seems
Unlike a spiral or elliptical galaxy, the galaxy KK 246 looks like glitter spilled across a black velvet sheet. KK 246, also known as ESO…
Hubble Deep Space Quest Makes Surprising Find in the Early Universe
Deep Space Quest Doesn’t Find the First Stars, Pushing Back the Timeline of the Universe’s Evolution. In Greek mythology the first deities born from the…
First Optical Measurements of Milky Way’s Mysterious Fermi Bubbles
Using the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper telescope, astronomers have for the first time measured the Fermi Bubbles in the visible light spectrum. The Fermi Bubbles are…
Gas Far Outside of Our Galaxy Illuminated by Enormous Burst of Energy Unleashed by Milky Way’s Black Hole
About 3.5 million years ago, the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy unleashed an enormous burst of energy. Our primitive…
Stellar Snowflakes: Stars in Globular Cluster 13,000 Light-Years Away Sparkle Peacefully
Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, about 13,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s galactic…
Key to Planet Formation Discovered With 3-Year Hubble Study of a Crowded, Massive Young Star Cluster
Hubble Finds that “Distance” From the Brightest Stars is Key to Preserving Primordial Discs The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year…
Dwarf Steals the Show on Cosmic Stage
As beautiful as the surrounding space may be, the sparkling galaxy in the foreground of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope undeniably steals…
One Large Stellar Latte to Go – Hubble Captures Galaxy First Spotted by William Herschel in 1790
Far away in the Ursa Major constellation is a swirling galaxy that would not look out of place on a coffee made by a starry-eyed…
A Sparkling Stretched Spiral and Stunning Out-of-This-World Galaxies Imaged by Hubble
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Known as NGC 4100, the…
Dark Energy Telescope Enables Seeing the Universe Through New Lenses
Images collected for dark energy telescope project reveal hundreds of new gravitational lens candidates. Like crystal balls for the universe’s deeper mysteries, galaxies and other…
Two Brilliant Supernovae From One Stunning Galaxy
Approximately 85 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Libra, is the beautiful galaxy NGC 5861, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope….
This Scene of Stellar Creation Is the Perfect Laboratory to Study the Origin of Massive Stars
This scene of stellar creation, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, sits near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula. This cloud of gas…