Astronomers Discover “Twins” of Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered Eta Carinae “twins” in other galaxies that will help scientists better understand this brief phase…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered Eta Carinae “twins” in other galaxies that will help scientists better understand this brief phase…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, which is located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The…
This Hubble image of the week shows the galaxy NGC 6052, which is located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It…
This newly released Hubble image shows HH34, which resides approximately 1,400 light-years away near the Orion Nebula. The artistic outburst of an extremely young star,…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers details the atmospheres of ten Jupiter-sized exoplanets and was able to…
This newly released Hubble image shows the globular cluster Terzan 1, which is located 20,000 light-years away. This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary…
Using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space telescopes, astronomers have discovered the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7252, which is located in the Aquarius constellation. Only rarely does an astronomical object have a…
This new Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 2768. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous core of NGC 2768 slowly fades outwards…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2768, which is located 60 million light-years away. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy 2MASX J16270254+4328340, which is located in the Hercules constellation. This curious galaxy — only known by the seemingly…
Astronomers at Yale and Harvard have measured the “heartbeats” of stars within elliptical galaxy M87 and used that data to determine the galaxy’s age in…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3610, which is located 70 million light-years away. At the center of this amazing image is…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy MCG+01-02-015. Only three local stars appear in this image, quartered by right-angled diffraction spikes. Everything besides them…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a “cosmic archaeological dig” at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have uncovered…
This newly released Hubble image shows the lenticular galaxy Mrk 820, which is located roughly 300 million light-years away. This galaxy is known as Mrk…
This newly released Hubble image shows the quadruple star system DI Cha. Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in…