Celebrate Hubble’s Anniversary with the 10 Top-Rated Hubble Images
Number 1: Westerlund 2 – Hubble’s 25th Anniversary Image This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the cluster Westerlund 2 and its surroundings has been…
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28th Anniversary Hubble Image Captures Roiling Heart of Lagoon Nebula
This colorful image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, celebrates the Earth-orbiting observatory’s 28th anniversary of viewing the heavens, giving us a window seat to…
Two Diverse Hubble Views of the Same Stellar Nursery
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope images compare two diverse views of the roiling heart of a vast stellar nursery, known as the Lagoon Nebula. The…
Hubble Image of the Week – Approaching the Universe’s Origins
This intriguing image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a massive galaxy cluster called PSZ2 G138.61-10.84, about six billion light-years away. Galaxies are not…
Hubble Image of the Week – Colossal Cluster PLCK_G308.3-20.2
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a massive galaxy cluster glowing brightly in the darkness. Despite its beauty, this cluster bears the distinctly unpoetic…
Hubble Space Telescope Reveals an Einstein Ring
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite elliptical galaxies and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge-on with the…
Witness the Spectacular and Mysterious Depths of the Cosmos Through Hubble’s Eye
Witness the most spectacular and mysterious depths of the cosmos through Hubble’s eye. These unique images are some of the best ever capture by the…
Hubble Makes Precise Distance Measurement to One of the Oldest Objects in the Universe
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a…
Hubble Telescope Reveals Most Distant Star Ever Observed
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found the most distant star ever discovered. The hot blue star existed only 4.4 billion years after…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Cosmic cloning
This image is packed full of galaxies! A keen eye can spot exquisite ellipticals and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge-on with the plane…
These Hubble Images Will Have You Wanting To See More
Hubble Telescope Discovers A Galaxy With No Dark Matter
Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don’t find one without the other. Therefore, researchers were surprised when they…
Hubble Captures Amazing View of Spiral Galaxy NGC 5714
This image, captured by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the spiral galaxy NGC 5714, about 130 million…
Hubble Telescope’s Impressive View of a Stellar Nursery
The exquisite sharpness of this 2005 image from NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has plucked out an underlying population of infant stars embedded in the nebula…
Hubble Measures Chemical Abundances in the Leading Arm of the Magellanic Stream
On the outskirts of our galaxy, a cosmic tug-of-war is unfolding—and only NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope can see who’s winning. The players are two dwarf…
Hubble Image of the Week – Lenticular Galaxy NGC 1277
This idyllic scene, packed with glowing galaxies, has something truly remarkable at its core: an untouched relic of the ancient Universe. This relic can be…
NASA Releases 12 New Hubble Images from the Messier Catalog
The Hubble Space Telescope has not produced images of every object in the Messier catalog, it has observed 93 of them as of February 2018….
Hubble Telescope Discovers Ancient “Relic Galaxy” In Our Cosmic Backyard
Astronomers have put NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones-type quest to uncover an ancient “relic galaxy” in our own cosmic backyard. The very…