Hubble Views Planetary Nebula NGC 7026
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust that is the wreckage of a star similar…
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A Spiral Within a Spiral, Galaxy ESO 498-G5
This new image of spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5 was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and shows the disc-type bulges, or pseudobulges, that this type…
Hubble Captures Image of NGC 891 in the Constellation of Andromeda
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of galaxy NGC 891, which is part of a small group of galaxies bound together by gravity in…
Hubble to Test Technique of Using the Moon as a Mirror
In an effort to test the technique of using the moon as a mirror, scientists will use Hubble to observe the transit of Venus across…
Hubble Views Star in Preplanetary Nebula Stage
A new image produced from exposures in visible and infrared light from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 shows a star from the Egg Nebula running…
Looking Inside a Stellar Cloud
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 shows stellar grouping NGC 2040, also known as LH 88. These…
Panoramic View of 30 Doradus – The Brightest Star-Forming Region in Our Galactic Neighborhood
A new image of 30 Doradus was released by ESA and NASA to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s 22nd anniversary. The panoramic image shows the…
Infant Galaxy Showcases Star Systems in the Early Universe
A rare cosmic zoom lens, which uses the gravity of a large mass to magnify light from distant objects, has allowed a team of US…
Hubble Captures New Image of Messier 9
The power of the Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to amaze. Pictured above is the most detailed image ever taken of the globular cluster Messier…
Quasars Acting as Gravitational Lenses Viewed by Hubble
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the universe and make it nearly impossible for astronomers to estimate…
Brightest Gravitationally Magnified Galaxy Discovered
Using computational tools that reversed the effect of gravitational lensing, scientists were able see what a galaxy looked like 10 billion years ago. Gravity from…
Atmosphere of Super-Earth GJ1214b Possibly Includes Abundant Water Vapor
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers probed the atmosphere around the transiting super-Earth known as GJ1214b and concluded that unless the atmosphere has a thick…
Stars of the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy
Images in visible and infrared light taken with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys show the Antlia Dwarf galaxy that was…
Dark Matter Core of Abell 520 Differs from Bullet Cluster
Using gravitational lensing, a team of scientists believed they have observed dark matter in Abell 520. The dark matter is not behaving as predicted and…
Hubble Telescope Image of Eta Carinae
At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it…
Hubble Reveals GJ1214b is a Waterworld Enshrouded by a Steamy Atmosphere
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers analyze the previously discovered world GJ1214b and helped them prove that it is a waterworld enshrouded by a thick,…
Researchers Detect Tellurium in Ancient Stars
Using data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope’s spectrograph, a team of researchers from MIT and various institutions have detected tellurium for the first time…
Researchers Discover First Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have found an intermediate-mass black hole surrounded by a cluster of young, blue stars. This is the first finding…