Time-Lapse Video Captures Comet ISON Heading Toward the Sun
This short time-lapse video shows the comet ISON as it zooms toward the Sun at 48,000 mph (77,000 kph).. This July Fourth the solar system…
Hubble Space Telescope News
Hubble Views Galaxy Pair MRK 1034
This Hubble image shows spiral galaxies PGC 9074 and PGC 9071, also known as galaxy pair MRK 1034. Looking towards the constellation of Triangulum (The…
Magnetic Winds From a Young Star in the Orion Nebula
Astronomers used the Very Large Array radio telescopes to track the motions of the gas near radio Source I in the Orion Nebula for over…
Study Suggest Spiral Galaxies Are Larger Than Previously Thought
A newly published study from the University of Colorado suggests that spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, are larger than previously thought. Let’s all fist…
Hubble Captures Face-On Image of Messier 61
Using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 2, NASA/ESA has captured a face-on image of the spiral galaxy Messier 61. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured…
Hubble Views Interacting Galaxy Duo Arp 142
This new Hubble Space telescope image shows two interacting galaxies, spiral galaxy NGC 2936 and elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, which are collectively known as Arp…
Hubble Views Two Galaxies Colliding
In this newly released image, the Hubble Space Telescope views two galaxies that are currently colliding to form a new one. The contorted object captured…
Hubble Views the Northern Trifid
In this new image, Hubble views NGC 1579, also known as the Northern Trifid. (In the enlarged photo, the upper left corner is blacked out.)…
NASA Image of the Day – The Butterfly Nebula
Taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009, this NASA image of the day shows NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula. The…
Hubble Maps 3D Structure of Ejected Material From Erupting Nova
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used a flash of light from double-star system T Pyxidis to probe for the first time the 3-D structure…
Hubble Views an Ongoing Cosmic Collision
In this new image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
Hubble Views a Starburst Galaxy
Using the Wide Field Camera 3, Hubble captured this new image of starburst galaxy J125013.50+073441.5. This beautiful, glittering swirl is named, rather un-poetically, J125013.50+073441.5. A…
New Hubble Data Helps Reveal Ring Nebula’s True Form
By using data from the Hubble Space Telescope combined with infrared data from ground-based telescopes, researchers were able to view the Ring Nebula’s true shape…
Herschel Discovers Massive Merging of Two Galaxies
The Herschel Space telescope has discovered a massive merging of two galaxies that took place when the universe was roughly 3 billion years old. The…
Detailed Hubble Image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula
Hubble reveals the full beauty of a bull’s eye pattern of eleven or so concentric rings around the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC…
Astronomers View Superheated Gas Swirling Around a Black Hole
By combining X-ray, optical, and radio data, astronomers get a full picture of the superheated gas swirling around the black hole at the center of…
Hubble Views Galaxy Cluster Abell S1077
This new Hubble images shows galaxy cluster Abell S1077 and is based in part on data spotted by Nick Rose in the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures…
Hubble Views Galaxy 2MASX J05210136-2521450
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy 2MASX J05210136-2521450. When we look into the distant cosmos, the great majority of the objects…