Hubble Image of the Week – Comet or Cluster?
Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks the mold. The 12-billion-year-old cluster is distorted, and stretches out…
Most globular clusters are almost perfectly spherical collections of stars — but Messier 62 breaks the mold. The 12-billion-year-old cluster is distorted, and stretches out…
Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects, but the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Messier 3, is commonly acknowledged to be one of…
Star clusters are commonly featured in cosmic photoshoots and are also well-loved by the keen eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These large gatherings…
A small asteroid has been caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space…
In 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped past Neptune—its final planetary target before speeding to the outer limits of the solar system. It was the first…
This star-studded image shows us a portion of Messier 11, an open star cluster in the southern constellation of Scutum (The Shield). Messier 11 is…
This fuzzy orb of light is a giant elliptical galaxy containing an incredible 200 billion stars. Unlike spiral galaxies, which have a well-defined structure and…
This Hubble Picture of the Week shows Messier 28, a globular cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer), in jewel-bright detail. It is about…
In a striking example of multi-mission astronomy, measurements from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the ESA Gaia mission have been combined to improve the…
Located in the constellation of Hercules, about 230 million light-years away, NGC 6052 is a pair of colliding galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784…
Globular clusters like NGC 2419, visible in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, are not only beautiful but also fascinating. They are…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, along with older data from the Voyager 2 probe, have revealed more about the origin of Neptune’s smallest…
Astronomers call it “the moon that shouldn’t be there.” After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has,…
Since Pluto’s demotion from a fully-fledged planet to a dwarf planet, Neptune holds the title of the outermost planet in the Solar System. This new…
In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the smoking gun of a newborn star, the Herbig–Haro objects numbered 7 to 11 (HH…
One of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s many scientific objectives is to study the planets within the Solar System — and in past years, our…
This atmospheric image shows a galaxy named Messier 85, captured in all its delicate, hazy glory by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Messier 85 slants…
This striking image combines data gathered with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and data from the Subaru Telescope…