Hubble Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy ESO 580-49
Don’t be fooled! The subject of this Picture of the Week, ESO 580-49, may seem tranquil and unassuming, but this spiral galaxy actually displays some…
Don’t be fooled! The subject of this Picture of the Week, ESO 580-49, may seem tranquil and unassuming, but this spiral galaxy actually displays some…
Astronomers used data from Hubble Space Telescope and ESA’s Gaia satellite to directly measure the 3D motions of individual stars in a nearby galaxy, achieving…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant Universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537. Galaxy clusters such as this one contain thousands…
This Hubble image reveals the Cosmic Snake, a distant galaxy peppered with clumpy regions of intense star formation that appear warped by the effect of…
An international team of astronomers has studied the image of a distant galaxy, 6 billion light-years away from us, warped and stretched by strong gravitational…
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope picture of the week shows the dwarf galaxy NGC 4625, which is located about 30 million light-years away in…
The Hubble Space Telescope views light from a supernova explosion in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 is reverberating off a huge dust cloud in interstellar…
This Hubble Space Telescope image seems to sink into the screen, plunging the viewer into the dark depths of the early Universe. Massive galaxy clusters…
Like rude relatives who jump in front of your vacation snapshots of landscapes, some of our solar system’s asteroids have photobombed deep images of the…
This Hubble image of the week shows Abell 665, which is located in the well-known northern constellation of Ursa Major. The Universe contains some truly…
Hubble has discovered a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it “snows” titanium oxide on the planet’s permanent nighttime side. NASA’s Hubble Space…
This newly released Hubble image of the weeks shows galaxy cluster WHL J24.3324-8.477 surrounded by many other galaxies. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is…
Neutron star collision cooks up exotic elements, gravitational waves When some people get in the kitchen, they create a delicious meal but leave behind a…
Marking the beginning of a new era in astrophysics, astronomers have detected gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or light, from the same event for the…
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have observed a visible counterpart to gravitational waves for the first time: a kilonova from merging neutron stars….
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows the result of a major collision and subsequent merger between two separate galaxies. This image, captured…
This newly released Hubble image of the week shows dwarf galaxy ESO 553-46, which is located approximately 20 million light-years away. As far as galaxies…
Hubble views the scattered and warped appearance of galaxy NGC 4490, which is the result of a past cosmic collision with galaxy NGC 4485. This…