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…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Electromagnetic Spectrum
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…
Celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd Birthday With a Stunning Galaxy Grouping
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…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Dwarf Galaxy
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,…
Celebrating Hubble’s 32nd Birthday: A Magnificent View of an Unusual Collection of Five Galaxies
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…
Angel Wing: Hubble Inspects a Vast Set of Galactic Wings
Two merging galaxies in the VV689 system — nicknamed the Angel Wing — feature in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Unlike chance…
Breaking News From the Dawn of the Universe: The Ancestor of a Supermassive Black Hole
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…
Hubble Uncovers Bizarre, Evolutionary Missing Link From the Dawn of the Universe
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…
Hubble Confirms Largest Comet Nucleus Ever Seen – A Staggering 500 Trillion Tons Headed This Way
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….
Spiral Snapshot Hides an Astronomical Monstrosity
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…
Astronomers Spot the Most Distant Single Star Ever Seen Using a Cosmic Telescope Predicted by Einstein
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…
Hubble Has Directly Photographed Evidence of a Planet Forming in an Unconventional Way
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…
Raining Vaporized Rock: Hubble Probes Bizarre Weather Conditions on Sizzling Worlds
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…
Hubble Space Telescope Spies a Serpentine Spiral Galaxy
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…
Cosmic Record Broken: Hubble Finds the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
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…
Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen Thanks to Lucky Cosmic Alignment – “We Almost Didn’t Believe It”
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…
More Than Meets the Eye: Seyfert Galaxy Discovery
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…
Hubble Spies a Stunning Spiral in Constellation Coma Berenices
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…
