Hubble Image of Planetary Nebula ESO 456-67
This newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows planetary nebula ESO 456-67. It may look like something from The Lord of the Rings,…
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Sideways Motions of Distant Stars Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution
A team of astronomers used Hubble to precisely measure the sideways motions of a small sample of stars located far from the galaxy’s center, shedding…
Hubble Views a Herbig-Haro Object
This new Hubble image shows a Herbig-Haro object, a jet of glowing material trailed by an orange-hued plume of gas and dust. This image shows…
Hubble Views a Pair of Interacting Galaxies Known As IC 2184
Composed of visible and infrared observations from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, this Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy ESO 121-6
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy ESO 121-6 and numerous nearby stars and galaxies. This thin, glittering streak of stars is the spiral…
Mysterious Infant Star Unleashes Strobe-Like Flashes of Light
A newly published study details a mysterious infant star, designated LRLL 54361, that unleashes strobe-like flashes of light every 25.34 days. Two of NASA’s great…
Unique Features of Spiral Galaxy Messier 106
Located about 20 million light-years away, spiral galaxy M 106 has several unique features: instead of two spiral arms, it appears to have four and…
Hubble Views a Galaxy in a Transitional Phase
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the transitional phase when young, star-forming galaxies settle to become massive, red, and dead galaxies. The further…
Hubble Views Open Cluster NGC 411
This composite image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows open cluster NGC 411, which is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Globular clusters are roughly…
Hubble Views a Busy Patch of the Great Attractor
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the Norma Cluster (Abell 3627), spiral galaxy ESO 137-002 and a dense area of…
Hubble Views the Large Magellanic Cloud and Its Star Forming Regions
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Large Magellanic Cloud and the many star-forming regions within it. Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic…
Astronomers Identify Gas Around Modern Galaxies
Using Hubble’s two ultraviolet spectrographs, researchers from the University of Notre Dame have identified gaseous streams near galaxies through the absorption they imprint on the…
Hubble Views Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5477
Created from a combination of exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, this new Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy NGC 5477 and the clouds of…
Hubble & Spitzer See Weather Patterns in a Brown Dwarf
By using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to simultaneously view the brown dwarf planet 2MASSJ22282889-431026, a team of astronomers has created a…
Hubble Reveals 2,000 Year Long Elliptical Orbit for Fomalhaut B
A new Hubble image has allowed scientists to calculate the orbital motion of the planet Fomalhaut b, finding that the orbit takes the planet as…
Hubble Views Galaxies NGC 5011B and NGC 5011C
A new Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 5011C, which astronomers now believe is a dwarf galaxy and not a member of the distant Centaurus Cluster…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 1097
This new Hubble image shows the star-forming ring that surrounds spiral galaxy NGC 1097, a galaxy that is located 45 million light-years away from Earth…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy IC 2233
This new image from Hubble shows spiral galaxy IC 2233, which is one of the flattest galaxies known and is located about 40 million light-years…