Hubble Views a Giant, Smoldering Star
This newly released Hubble image shows the star HD 184738. This new image, snapped by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star HD 184738, also…
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Researchers Discover Over 600 “Red Nugget” Galaxy Candidates
Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey database, researchers discovered more than 600 “red nugget” galaxy candidates located at distances of 2.5 to 5.7 billion light-years…
Hubble Reveals Largest Known Group of Star Clusters, Clues to Dark Matter
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered the largest known group of star clusters and have confirmed that such compact groupings can be used…
Hubble Zooms In on Spiral Galaxy IC 2560
Released last week, this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gives a close-up view of spiral galaxy IC 2560. Lying over 110 million light-years…
Hubble Views Dwarf Galaxy ESO 540-31
This newly released Hubble image shows the many stars of dwarf galaxy ESO 540-31. The glittering specks in this image, resembling a distant flock of…
Hubble Views Lenticular Galaxy PGC 10922
This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy PGC 10922. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of PGC 10922, an example of…
Astronomers Find Bizarre Alignment of Planetary Nebulae in the Milky Way
Using Hubble observations, a new study from the University of Manchester has found that bipolar planetary nebulae located towards the central bulge of our Milky…
Hubble Views a Protostar in a Very Early Evolutionary Stage
This composite Hubble image shows IRAS 20324+4057, a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a…
5,000 Light Year Long Jet of Superheated Gas Ejected From a Supermassive Black Hole
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected…
Hubble Views a Cosmic Optical Illusion
This newly released Hubble images shows irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389, galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117 and many other more distant galaxies. At first glance, this Hubble…
Hubble Image Shows Distant Galaxies Colliding
This newly released Hubble image shows two spiral galaxies colliding. Astronomical pictures sometimes deceive us with tricks of perspective. Right in the center of this…
Hubble Data Reveals Galaxies Had ‘Mature’ Shapes 11.5 Billion Years Ago
Using data from the Hubble Space telescope, astronomers show that galaxies had “mature” shapes 11.5 billion years ago. Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies…
Hubble Views a Very Young Star Being Born
In this newly released image Hubble views a young star being born in the gas, dust, and ices of the dark cloud LDN 43. Don’t…
Astronomers Solve the Mystery of the Origin of the Magellanic Stream
Data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope has helped solve the mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, revealing that…
Hubble Reveals a New Kind of Stellar Blast Called a Kilonova
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new type of stellar explosion called a kilonova. Kilonovas are about 1,000 times brighter than a nova, but they…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 4517
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4517, which is located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Another treasure…
Hubble Survey Helps Solve “Quenched” Galaxy Mystery
Data from Hubble’s COSMOS survey helps solve the mystery of “quenched” galaxies, finding that larger galaxies were “switching off” at later times and adding their…
Hubble Views Lenticular Galaxy NGC 524
This Hubble image reveals the mysterious structure of galaxy NGC 524, which is formed by the remaining gas surrounding the galaxy’s central bulge. This striking…