ESA Image of the Week: Butterfly Emerges From Stellar Demise of NGC 6302
This ESA image of the week shows the remains of a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun. Known…
Hubble Space Telescope News
New Hubble Image: Turquoise-Tinted Plumes in the LMC
This newly released Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The brightly glowing plumes seen…
Hubble Measures Temperature and Water Vapor on Exoplanet WASP-43b
A team of astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet outside…
New Hubble Image Shows Spiral Galaxy NGC 4206
This newly released Hubble image shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4206, which is located about 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation…
Newly Released Hubble Image of AG Carinae
This newly released Hubble image shows AG Carinae – a luminous star classified as a Luminous Blue Variable. In this new Hubble image, the strikingly…
DDO 68 – A Young Galaxy in the Local Universe?
This new Hubble image reveals what seems to be a recently-formed galaxy in the local universe. Astronomers usually have to peer very far into the…
Astronomers Discover Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Neptune-Size Exoplanet
Using the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, researchers have discovered clear skies and water vapor on a Neptune-size gaseous exoplanet…
The Bermuda Triangle of Space: New Video Explores the South Atlantic Anomaly
This newly released six-minute video details the mysterious region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – an area where the Earth’s inner Van Allen radiation…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7793
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7793. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793, a spiral galaxy…
Hubble Reveals Smallest Known Galaxy with Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of ultra-compact galaxy M60-UCD1, making this galaxy the smallest ever found to…
Hubble Views Two Interacting Galaxies
This newly released Hubble image shows two interacting galaxies – NGC 6872 and IC 4970. This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide…
Hubble Discovers a Companion Star to a Rare Type of Supernova
Using optical light data and Hubble’s UV light images, astronomers have discovered the companion star of a rare Type IIb supernova. The discovery confirms a…
Hubble Views Irregular Galaxy IC 559
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular galaxy IC 559. Far beyond the stars in the constellation of Leo (The Lion) is irregular galaxy IC…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy PGC 54493
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy PGC 54493. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a beautiful spiral galaxy known as PGC…
Hubble Image of the Day: A Variety of Intriguing Cosmic Phenomena
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows a variety of intriguing cosmic phenomena – like a star in the early stages of its life…
Hubble Views the Constellation of Canes Venatici
This newly released Hubble image shows multiple Messier objects and numerous galaxies in the Canes Venatici constellation. This stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble…
Hubble Image of the Day – Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
First released in 2005, this Hubble image of the day shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever…
Hubble Views Several Colorful Galaxies
This newly released Hubble image shows several colorful galaxies, the most prominent being the two galaxies on the left: 2MASX J16133219+5103436 at the bottom, and…