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 Space Telescope News
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…
Hubble Spots Lenticular Galaxy NGC 5010
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy NGC 5010, which is located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo…
Asteroid Belts and Their Potential Significance for Life
A newly published study from a team of scientists suggests and explains how asteroid belts may be important both for the existence of life and…
Hubble Views a Starburst Galaxy Hard at Work
Located about 12 million light-years from the sun and part of the Messier 81 group of galaxies, starburst galaxy NGC 3738 is currently converting hydrogen…
Hubble Views Abell 2261, An Elliptical Galaxy With an Unusually Large Core
This new image from Hubble shows Abell 2261, a giant elliptical galaxy located about three billion light-years away that is roughly ten times the diameter…
New Study Revives Doubted Exoplanet Fomalhaut b
A team of astronomers reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to further examine whether the star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b,…
Scientists Search for Quasar’s “Missing” Galaxy
Scientists are exploring the mystery of a distant and very bright quasar that dates to less than one billion years after the Big Bang. Hubble…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 3344
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 3344, which is located 25 million light-years away. NGC 3344 is a glorious…
Hubble Views the Cosmic Riches of Messier 69
This Hubble image shows the globular cluster Messier 69, also known as NGC 6637, which is located 29,700 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. This…
Images of the Necklace Nebula
The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) is a planetary nebula situated in the northern constellation Sagitta, and is located about 15,000 light-years away. It was first…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 4183
First observed by the British astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1778, and now seen in this new image from Hubble, spiral galaxy NGC 4183…
New XDF Image, The Deepest-Ever View of the Universe
This new full-color XDF image offers an improved portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe and contains about 5,500 galaxies. The Hubble Ultra Deep…
Hubble Views Glowing Gas and Dark Dust in Spiral Galaxy NGC 4634
Located roughly 70 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Coma Berenices, spiral galaxy NGC 4634 is seen in great detail in this new…
NASA Telescopes Spot Ultra-Distant Galaxy, MACS 1149-JD
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes and gravitational lensing, astronomers have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. With the combined…