Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen Thanks to Lucky Cosmic Alignment – “We Almost Didn’t Believe It”
A lucky cosmic alignment has revealed a single source of light in the first billion years after the big bang, setting up a major confirmation…
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More Than Meets the Eye: Seyfert Galaxy Discovery
Tendrils of dark dust can be seen threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space…
Hubble Spies a Stunning Spiral in Constellation Coma Berenices
This cosmic portrait — captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) — shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy…
Hubble Space Telescope Captures a “Five-Star” Rated Gravitational Lens
This full-size Hubble image shows galaxy cluster SDSS J1004+4112 that was discovered as part of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is one of the…
Eye of the Galaxy: Hubble Reveals Galactic Structure in Intricate Detail
This finely detailed image shows the heart of NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy that lies about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation…
Hubble Space Telescope’s ACS Celebrates 20 Years of Ground-Breaking Discovery
The ACS continues to deliver ground-breaking science. When astronauts installed the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on March 7, 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope was…
Stellar Tantrum: An Energetic Outburst From an Infant Star Streaks Across Space
An energetic outburst from an infant star streaks across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This stellar tantrum — produced by an extremely…
Not-So-Close Encounters of the Galactic Kind
The twin galaxies NGC 4496A and NGC 4496B dominate the frame in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Both galaxies lie in the…
Spectacular Head-On Collision Between Two Galaxies Creates a Tsunami of Starbirth
Interactions Between These Two Galaxies Is Creating a Tsunami of Starbirth If you like looking at weirdly shaped galaxies, there’s no better place than the…
Weird and Wonderful Galaxies: Hubble Captures a Peculiar Galactic Pair
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 298, a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Arp 298 — which comprises the two…
Galaxy Zoo: Hubble Captures a Tumultuous Galactic Trio
The mass of dust and bright swirls of stars in this image are the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which lies 681 million light-years from…
Electromagnetic “Tug-of-War” Lights Up Jupiter’s Upper Atmosphere
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex ‘tug-of-war’ lights up aurorae in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere, using a combination of data…
A Cosmic Draw: Interacting Galaxies With Monumentally Energetic Cores
It is now widely accepted amongst astronomers that an important aspect of how galaxies evolve is the way they interact with one another. Galaxies can…
Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Star-Forming Chamaeleon
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide star-forming region named the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex. The segment…
Hubble Space Telescope Revisits a Galactic Oddball
The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 is featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This diminutive galaxy lies in the southern constellation Pictor,…
Eta Carinae: The Great Eruption of a Massive Star – Stunning New Astronomical Visualization
The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations It was once one of the brightest stars in the heavens, easily visible to…
Galactic Bowling
The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope,…
Hubble Spots a Black Hole Igniting a Firestorm of Star Formation in a Dwarf Galaxy
Dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 continues to make a big impact, defying astronomers’ expectations. Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe—tearing apart…
