Hubble Captures Incredible Snapshot of a Massive Galaxy Cluster
The massive galaxy cluster Abell 1351 is captured in this image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for…
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Cosmic Cannibalism: Dead Star Caught Violently Tearing Up Planetary System
Both Rocky and Icy Bodies Were Identified Among the Debris on the Surface of a White Dwarf Star “Bring out your dead!” rings in the…
Hubble Finds Phantom Imprint in Space Revealing Black Hole Roaming Our Milky Way Galaxy
Hubble Determines Mass of Black Hole Isolated Black Hole Supermassive black holes, such as Sagittarius A* — the black hole at the center of the…
Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Stunning Cosmic Treasure Chest
On a regular basis, the Hubble Space Telescope releases spectacular images, from incredible spiral galaxies and galactic oddballs to gorgeous pictures of the planets in…
See Galaxies From the Last 10 Billion Years: Hubble Captures Largest Near-Infrared Image To Find Universe’s Rarest Galaxies
There is a patch of the sky known as the COSMOS field, a region rich with galaxies, that was chosen for the Cosmic Evolution Survey…
Hubble Investigates a Mysterious Globular Cluster in Search of Clues
Like a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to peer into an astronomical mystery in search…
Hubble Captures Magnificent Grand Spiral Galaxy Face-On
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope features the Grand Design Spiral, NGC 3631, located approximately 53 million light-years away in the direction of the…
Hubble Space Telescope Goes Galactic Birdwatching
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away from Earth in the…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Measuring the Age and Size of the Universe
How do we measure the age and size of the universe? The search for Cepheids The top-ranked scientific justification for building the Hubble Space Telescope…
Hubble Captures a Turbulent Galactic Gravitational Dance
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation finds the large spiral galaxy, NGC 3227, engaged in a turbulent gravitational dance with its companion, the elliptical galaxy…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Dark Energy
What Is Dark Energy? Dark energy is the name given to the as yet unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate….
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Comet
What Is a Comet? A comet is an icy, rocky mass that has passed close by the Sun within our Solar System, and has thus…
Hubble Space Telescope Peers Through Giant Elliptical Galaxy’s Layers
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Located around 100 million light-years from Earth,…
Hubble Captures a Peculiar Galactic Pair
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, also known as Arp 40, shows a strange pair of spiral galaxies approximately 800 million…
Hiding in Plain Sight Behind Piercingly Blue Stars
The subdued red tones of the globular cluster Liller 1 are partially obscured in this view by a dense scattering of piercingly blue stars. In…
Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate: Hubble Data Shows That “Something Weird” Is Going On
Three Decades of Space Telescope Observations Converge on a Precise Value for the Hubble Constant Science history will record that the search for the expansion…
Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: James Webb Space Telescope
What Is the James Webb Space Telescope? The James Webb Space Telescope is the next great space science observatory, designed to answer outstanding questions about…
Hubble Spies an Exquisite Hidden Galaxy
Spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, is located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this sparkling, face-on…