Professional and Amateur Astronomers Join Forces
A new collaboration combines data from amateur astronomers with data from NASA mission archives.
ILLUSTRATION SHOWS QUASARS COMING TOGETHER IN MERGING GALAXIES
All that glitters
This striking new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a glittering bauble named Messier 92. Located in the northern constellation of Hercules, this globular cluster — a ball of stars that orbits a galactic core like a satellite — was first discovered by astronomer Johann Elert Bode in...
ARTWORK OF EXOPLANET GJ 1132 B
This is an artist's impression of the Earth-sized, rocky exoplanet GJ 1132 b, located 41 light-years away around a red dwarf star. Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence this planet may have lost its original atmosphere but gained a second one that contains a toxic...
Fast Radio Burst Host Residuals Unannotated
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arm
Fast Radio Burst Hosts Unannotated
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arm
Hubble Uncovers Concentration of Small Black Holes
Collapsed Stars Hide Out In the Core of a Globular Cluster
Fast Radio Burst Host Residuals
Hubble Tracks Down Fast Radio Bursts to Galaxies’ Spiral Arm
Hubble Solves Mystery of Monster Star’s Dimming
THE RED HYPERGIANT VY CANIS MAJORIS IS ENSHROUDED IN HUGE CLOUDS OF DUST
HUBBLE GIVES UNPRECEDENTED, EARLY VIEW OF A DOOMED STAR'S DESTRUCTION
ASTRONOMERS WITNESSED THE SPECTACULAR DEATH OF THE STAR AS IT HAPPENED.
GOODS/ERS2 FIELD
More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this unprecedented, panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September and October 2009 with the newly...
Hubble Shows Torrential Outflows from Infant Stars May Not Stop Them from Growing
A Star is Born Though our galaxy is an immense city of at least 200 billion stars, the details of how they formed remain largely cloaked in mystery. Scientists know that stars form from the collapse of huge hydrogen clouds that are squeezed under gravity to the point where nuclear fusion...
Trojan Asteroid 2019 LD2
Hubble Spots Vagabond Comet near Jupiter’s Asteroids
SPHERE image of the newborn planet PDS 70b
This spectacular image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The planet stands clearly out, visible as a bright point to the right of the centre of the image, which is...
Roman Ultra Deep Field
This composite image illustrates the possibility of a Roman Space Telescope “ultra deep field” observation. In a deep field, astronomers collect light from a patch of sky for an extended period of time to reveal the faintest and most distant objects. This view centers on the Hubble Ultra Deep...
Supernova Remnant 1E 0102
Gaseous Relic of Titanic Explosion This Hubble Space Telescope portrait reveals the gaseous remains of an exploded massive star that erupted 1,700 years. The stellar corpse, a supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219, met its demise in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky...
Dark Nebula in Galactic Bulge
New Survey Finds that Single Burst of Star Formation Created Milky Way’s Central Bulge
Neptune Dark Spot
HUBBLE UNCOVERS A PAIR OF DARK VORTICES ON NEPTUNE
Dark Rays in IC 5063
Hubble Catches Possible Shadow of Disk Around a Black Hole
Coils of Apep
The VISIR instrument on ESO’s VLT captured this stunning image of a newly-discovered massive binary star system. Nicknamed Apep after an ancient Egyptian deity, it could be the first gamma-ray burst progenitor to be found in our galaxy. Apep’s stellar winds have created the dust cloud...
Galaxy NGC 2525
Pictured here is the captivating galaxy NGC 2525. Located nearly 70 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is part of the constellation of Puppis in the southern hemisphere. Together with the Carina and the Vela constellations, it makes up an image of the Argo from ancient greek...
Fading Stingray Nebula
IMAGES SPANNING 20 YEARS REVEAL DISAPPEARING NEBULA
Pluto and Charon
Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, are two of the most well-known residents of the Kuiper Belt. This composite of enhanced color images of Pluto (lower right) and Charon (upper left), was taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it passed through the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. The color...
Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet That Behaves Like the Long-Sought “Planet Nine”
This artist’s illustration portrays two galaxies that existed in the first billion years of the universe. The larger galaxy at left hosts a brilliant quasar at its center, whose glow is powered by hot matter surrounding a supermassive black hole. Scientists calculate that the resolution and...
ULLYSES Targets in LMC
HUBBLE LAUNCHES LARGE ULTRAVIOLET-LIGHT SURVEY OF NEARBY STARS
HUBBLE INTERACTING GALAXY NGC 3256
NGC 3256 is an impressive example of a peculiar galaxy that is actually the relict of a collision of two separate galaxies that took place in a distant past. The telltale signs of the collision are two extended luminous tails swirling out from the galaxy. NGC 3256 belongs to the Hydra-Centaurus...
HALO AROUND THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY ILLUSTRATION
This illustration shows the location of the 43 quasars scientists used to probe Andromeda’s gaseous halo. These quasars—the very distant, brilliant cores of active galaxies powered by black holes—are scattered far behind the halo, allowing scientists to probe multiple regions. Looking through...
Kilonova
NASA’s Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion
Comet NEOWISE
Whether it’s a surprise asteroid, colorful aurora or a heart-stopping eclipse, the landscape of the night sky is constantly changing. When a new visitor appears in view, it’s guaranteed to grab the attention of professional astronomers and casual sky
Triangulum Galaxy Shows Stunning Face in Detailed Hubble Portrait
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has produced this stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum galaxy (M33), displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly 25 million individually resolved stars. It is the largest high-resolution mosaic image of Triangulum ever assembled, composed...
ILLUSTRATION OF OUTBURST FROM BETELGEUSE
ONE SCENARIO THAT LED TO THE STAR BETELGEUSE'S 'GREAT DIMMING' EVENT
Hubble Sees Summertime on Saturn
Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. This new Saturn image was taken during summer in the planet’s northern hemisphere. Hubble found a number of...
Hubble Captures Crisp New Portrait of Jupiter
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s turbulent atmosphere, including a remarkable new...
Illustration of Quasar
Using Webb to Study Quasars and Their Host Galaxies in Three Dimensions
Jupiter and Io
The moon Io orbits Jupiter in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Io is similar in size to Earth’s moon. Jupiter and Io appear deceptively close in this image, when in fact the moon is orbiting 217,000 miles from the gas giant planet.
HUBBLE FINDS "GREATER PUMPKIN" GALAXY PAIR
This is a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the early stages of a collision between two galaxies that resembles a Halloween carved pumpkin. The "pumpkin's" glowing "eyes" are the bright, star-filled cores of each galaxy that contain supermassive black holes. An arm of newly forming stars give...
New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe took place sooner than previously thought. A European team of astronomers have found no evidence of the first generation of stars, known as Population III stars, when...
SEYFERT FLARE ILLUSTRATION
INTENSE FLASH FROM MILKY WAY'S BLACK HOLE ILLUMINATED GAS FAR OUTSIDE OF OUR GALAXY
Two Planetary Nebulas: NGC 6302 and NGC 7027
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The observations highlight a...
Hubble Observes the Total Lunar Eclipse (Artist’s Impression)
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse in January 2019, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have detected ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. This method serves as a proxy for how they will observe Earth-like planets transiting in front of other stars in search of life. Our planet’s...
Astronomers Find Jupiter-like Cloud Bands on Closest Brown Dwarf
Today’s weather forecast: partly cloudy with ammonia rain
Hubble Observations Suggest a Missing Ingredient in Current Dark Matter Theories
Researchers Find a Gnawing Gap Between Dark Matter Observations and Theories
Doomed Deep-Space Visitor Falls Apart as It Approaches the Sun
Comets are one of the most legendary and opulent denizens of deep space. Their long tails are so mysterious looking, their sudden appearance so unpredictable, and their journey across the sky so ephemeral that they were once feared as omens of evil, pestilence, and war. These latest images...
Hubble Probes Alien Comet's Chemical Makeup
Astronomers have uncovered more than 4,000 planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. But they have few details on the planets' chemical makeup and how they were assembled inside a swirling disk of rock and ice encircling their stars. The stars a
The Orion Nebula
This color-composite mosaic of the central part of the Orion Nebula is based on 81 images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. The famous Trapezium stars appear near the center, amid the Trapezium Cluster, the very crowded home...
Hubble Reveals a Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth
This Hubble image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and searing ultraviolet radiation. In this Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in...
Bat Shadow
Shadows on Earth can be mysterious and foreboding, but when they occur in space, they can convey information we otherwise could not know. In a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, nearly 1,300 light-years away, a young star’s game of shadow play is revealing secrets of its unseen...
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
These images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot were made using data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory on April 1, 2018. By combining observations captured at almost the same time from the two different observatories, astronomers were able to determine that dark features...
ILLUSTRATION OF BLACK HOLE SYSTEM
HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING REVEALS BLACK HOLE'S HIDEOUT IN EXTRA-GALACTIC STAR CLUSTER
HOT JUPITER ILLUSTRATION OF WASP-79B
BLOATED, SEETHING WORLD HAS A WEIRD ATMOSPHERE This is an artist's illustration of the super-hot exoplanet WASP-79b, located 780 light-years away. The planet orbits precariously close to a star that is much hotter than our Sun. The planet is larger than Jupiter, and its very deep, hazy...
SIMULATED IMAGE DEMONSTRATES THE POWER OF NASA'S WIDE FIELD INFRARED SURVEY TELESCOPE
A NEW SIMULATED IMAGE OF THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY SHOWCASES WFIRST'S UNIQUE COMBINATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION AND WIDE FIELD OF VIEW
NASA UNVEILS CELESTIAL FIREWORKS AS OFFICIAL HUBBLE 25TH ANNIVER
NASA and ESA are celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope's silver anniversary of 25 years in space by unveiling some of nature's own fireworks - a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2. The cluster resides inside a vibrant stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000...
Galactic Snake
This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a "snake" (upper left) and its surrounding stormy environment.
Uranus and Neptune
On the left, Uranus in 2005 displays its ring system. The planet—along with its rings and moons—is tipped on its side, rotating at roughly a 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. On the right, the Hubble Space Telescope image of Neptune, taken in 2018, shows a new dark storm.
COSMIC WEB AND SLIME MOLD
TRACING THE LOCATION OF THE COSMIC WEB USING SLIME MOLD SIMULATIONS
This artist's illustration shows the powerful outflows of extremely hot and highly ionized gas emanating from an energetic quasar disrupting its host galaxy.
Hubble Captures Protoplanetary Collision in the Fomalhaut Star System
This diagram simulates what astronomers studying the Hubble Space Telescope observations, taken over several years, consider evidence for the first-ever detection of a titanic planetary collision in another star system. The color-tinted Hubble image on the left is of a vast ring of icy debris...
Hubble Indicates the Stately Sombrero Underwent Major Mergers
The massive Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a bright enigma, a hybrid that conforms to neither a spiral nor elliptical structure. It’s also alone in the sky, not embedded inside a cluster of other galaxies. How did it get this way? Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to investigate the...
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