Hubble Views Globular Cluster Messier 56
Consisting of visible and near-infrared exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, the above image shows globular cluster Messier 56, which is located in the…
Consisting of visible and near-infrared exposures from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, the above image shows globular cluster Messier 56, which is located in the…
Located about nine million light-years away from our solar system and classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, DDO 190 with its reddish outskirt stars and…
Located 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a pair of star clusters in the gigantic 30 Doradus nebula are believed to be in…
Produced by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys, the above image is a close-up view of part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is 170,000 light-years away…
Discovered in March 1786 and located in the constellation of Virgo, NGC 4700 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy and is about 50 million…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of globular star cluster Messier 107, which is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The NASA/ESA…
While using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures and study very distant galaxies in the early universe, astronomers discovered a spiral galaxy that is…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals part of the disc of the spiral galaxy NGC 4565, also known as the Needle Galaxy….
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a fifth moon, designated P5, orbiting Pluto that is irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across….
With help from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now believe reionization is to blame for the relatively small number of stars found in the extremely…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of U Cam coughing out a spherical shell of gas as a layer of helium around its core…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Although Herbig–Haro (HH) objects…
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
In the constellation of Ophiuchus and about 15,000 light-years from Earth, the globular cluster Messier 10 was discovered by Charles Messier in the 18th century…
Though separated by tens of millions of light-years, a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of galaxies that seem to be…