Hubble Views Elliptical Galaxy NGC 3923
This Hubble image of the week shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3923, which is located over 90 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. NGC…
This Hubble image of the week shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3923, which is located over 90 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. NGC…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that the immense halo of gas enveloping the Andromeda galaxy is about six times larger and 1,000…
An international team of astronomers has pushed back the cosmic frontier of galaxy exploration to a time when the universe was only 5% of its…
This newly released Hubble image provides the clearest ever view of galaxy NGC 949, which lies over 30 million light-years away in the constellation of…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy UGC 5797. The smudge of stars at the center of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a…
This Hubble image of star cluster Westerlund 2 was chosen as Hubble’s 25th-anniversary image. The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a…
New research reveals that three billion years after the Big Bang, massive elliptical galaxies still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their…
This Hubble image of the week shows peculiar galaxy ESO 162-17, which is located about 40 million light-years away. This galaxy goes by the name…
This Hubble image of the week shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2865, which is located roughly 100 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
New research provides the most complete picture yet of how galaxies like the Milky Way grew over the past 10 billion years into today’s majestic…
This newly released Hubble image shows the center of the globular cluster Messier 22, also known as M22. Globular clusters are spherical collections of densely…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3021, which lies about 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. Among…
In a newly published study, astronomers used X-rays from Chandra and optical data from Hubble to help narrow down the possibilities of what dark matter…
This newly released Hubble image shows an edge-on view of the spiral galaxy NGC 5023. Due to its orientation, we cannot appreciate its spiral arms,…
This newly released Hubble image shows blue compact dwarf galaxy SBS 1415+437. The bright streak of glowing gas and stars in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
First released in 2006, this popular image reveals Hubble’s sharpest view to date of the Orion Nebula. The image offers a peek inside a cavern…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted four images of a distant exploding star for the first time. The images are…
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular galaxy UGC 8201, which is located roughly 15 million light-years away. The galaxy UGC 8201, captured here by…