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…
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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…
Hubble Data Reveals That Globular Clusters Age at Different Rates
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists discovered that globular clusters of the same age can have dramatically different distributions of blue straggler stars…
Hubble Views Planetary Nebula NGC 5189
A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the planetary nebula NGC 5189, which is located several thousand light-years away in the southern…
Hubble Reveals Seven Faraway Galaxies
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field 2012 campaign revealed seven previously unseen populations of faraway galaxies, viewing them as they looked 350 to 600 million years…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 922
This new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 922, which is located about 157 million light years from Earth and was formed by the collision…
Hubble Views Galaxy ESO 318-13
This is a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy ESO 318-13 and other more distant galaxies, which are located millions of light-years…
Hubble Views Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows irregular galaxy NGC 5253, a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 12…
New Observation of Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
Hubble and VLA View Elliptical Galaxy Hercules A
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Massive Black Hole is 17 Billion Times Our Sun’s Mass
A massive black hole, measuring 17 billion times our sun’s mass and more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the sun, could…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy ESO 499-G37
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy ESO 499-G37, which is located in the southern border of the constellation of Hydra….
WASP-12 b, A Planet Being Consumed By Its Own Sun
A newly published study takes a closer look at WASP-12 b, a planet that is being consumed by its own star. A planet roughly 1.4…
Hubble Views Elliptical Galaxy 4C 73.08
Using two filters on Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, a new image of the gigantic elliptical galaxy 4C 73.08 was taken. Luminous galaxies glow like…
Hubble Views What Is Probably the Most Distant Known Galaxy
The galaxy known as MACS0647-JD is located behind an enormous galactic cluster MACS J0647+7015 that lies between the Big and Little Dipper. Data shows that…