Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter's Atmosphere
Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter. The auroras were photographed during a series of Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph...
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks in 'Skyrocket' Galaxy
As we celebrate the Fourth of July by watching dazzling fireworks shows, another kind of fireworks display is taking place in a small, nearby galaxy. A stellar fireworks show is lighting up one end of the diminutive galaxy Kiso 5639. The dwarf galaxy is shaped like a flattened pancake, but...
Hubble Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune
Pancake-shaped clouds not only appear in the children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," but also 3 billion miles away on the gaseous planet Neptune. When they appeared in July 2015, witnessed by amateur astronomers and the largest telescopes, scientists suspected that these clouds were...
Hubble Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune
Pancake-shaped clouds not only appear in the children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," but also 3 billion miles away on the gaseous planet Neptune. When they appeared in July 2015, witnessed by amateur astronomers and the largest telescopes, scientists suspected that these clouds were...
Hubble Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune
Pancake-shaped clouds not only appear in the children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," but also 3 billion miles away on the gaseous planet Neptune. When they appeared in July 2015, witnessed by amateur astronomers and the largest telescopes, scientists suspected that these clouds were...
Hubble Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune
Pancake-shaped clouds not only appear in the children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," but also 3 billion miles away on the gaseous planet Neptune. When they appeared in July 2015, witnessed by amateur astronomers and the largest telescopes, scientists suspected that these clouds were...
Hubble Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune
Pancake-shaped clouds not only appear in the children's book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," but also 3 billion miles away on the gaseous planet Neptune. When they appeared in July 2015, witnessed by amateur astronomers and the largest telescopes, scientists suspected that these clouds were...
Hubble Discovers Moon Orbiting the Dwarf Planet Makemake
Makemake is one of several dwarf planets that reside in the frigid outer realm of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a "junkyard" of countless icy bodies left over from our solar system's formation. After discovering Makemake in 2005, astronomers had searched several times for a companion...
Hubble Takes Mars Portrait Near Close Approach
On May 12, 2016, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this striking image of Mars, when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth. The photo reveals details as small as 20 miles to 30 miles across. This observation was made just a few days before Mars opposition on May 22,...
Hubble's Journey to the Center of Our Galaxy
Hubble's infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at its core. Except for a few blue, foreground stars, the stars are part of the Milky Way's nuclear star cluster, the most massive and densest stellar cluster in our galaxy. Located...
Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR
For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs" of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their...
Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR
For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs" of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their...
Hubble Catches Views of a Jet Rotating with Comet 252P/LINEAR
For thousands of years, humans have recorded sightings of mysterious comets sweeping across the nighttime skies. These celestial wanderers, "snowballs" of dust and ice, are swift-moving visitors from the cold depths of space. Some of them periodically visit the inner solar system during their...
Hubble View of Entire SWEEPS Field
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a dense collection of stars crammed together in the Milky Way galaxy's ancient central hub. The region surveyed represents one entire field of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) program. The region is 26,000 light-years...
Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place
Imagine driving through a small town containing modest-sized buildings and seeing a 100-story skyscraper. Astronomers found the equivalent monstrosity in space: a near-record supermassive black hole that weighs 17 billion suns and lives in a cosmic backwater community of a few galaxies. Until...
Behemoth Black Hole Found in an Unlikely Place
Imagine driving through a small town containing modest-sized buildings and seeing a 100-story skyscraper. Astronomers found the equivalent monstrosity in space: a near-record supermassive black hole that weighs 17 billion suns and lives in a cosmic backwater community of a few galaxies. Until...
Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through time. Now, by pushing Hubble to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by viewing the farthest galaxy ever seen. Named...
Hubble Unveils Monster Stars
An international team of astronomers using the ultraviolet capabilities of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has identified nine monster stars with masses over 100 times the mass of the sun in the star cluster R136. This makes for the largest sample of very massive stars identified to date. The...
Telescopes Combine to Push Frontier on Galaxy Clusters
To learn more about galaxy clusters, including how they grow via collisions, astronomers have used some of the world's most powerful telescopes, looking at different types of light. They have focused long observations with these telescopes on a half-dozen galaxy clusters. The name for the galaxy...
Telescopes Combine to Push Frontier on Galaxy Clusters
To learn more about galaxy clusters, including how they grow via collisions, astronomers have used some of the world's most powerful telescopes, looking at different types of light. They have focused long observations with these telescopes on a half-dozen galaxy clusters. The name for the galaxy...
Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is an amazing time machine; by looking back through space, astronomers actually look back through time. Now, by pushing Hubble to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by viewing the farthest galaxy ever seen. Named...
Hubble Unveils a Tapestry of Dazzling Diamond-Like Stars
Some of the Milky Way's "celebrity stars" — opulent, attention-getting, and short-lived — can be found in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the glittering star cluster called Trumpler 14. It is located 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, a huge star-formation region in our galaxy....
Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter'
Though nearly 2,000 planets have been found around other stars, the light from only a handful of them has ever been collected by the world's most powerful telescopes. Ironically, a lot of them are detected by the shadows they cast, as they pass in front of their parent stars. Follow-up...
Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter'
Though nearly 2,000 planets have been found around other stars, the light from only a handful of them has ever been collected by the world's most powerful telescopes. Ironically, a lot of them are detected by the shadows they cast, as they pass in front of their parent stars. Follow-up...
NASA's Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This multiwavelength image shows this galaxy cluster, called IDCS J1426.5+3508 (IDCS 1426 for short), in X-rays recorded by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in...
NASA's Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster
Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA's Great Observatories. This multiwavelength image shows this galaxy cluster, called IDCS J1426.5+3508 (IDCS 1426 for short), in X-rays recorded by the Chandra X-ray Observatory in...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies
Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. Still shrouded by this expanding veil of gas and...
Hubble Frontier Field Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403 (Parallel)
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon...
SUPERNOVA REFSDAL AND GALAXY CLUSTER MACS J1149.5+2223
GALAXY CLUSTER MACS J1149.5+2223 This image composite shows the search for the supernova nicknamed Refsdal using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image to the left shows a part of the deep-field observation of the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.5+2223 from the Frontier Fields program. The circle...
HUBBLE SURVEY UNLOCKS CLUES TO STAR BIRTH IN NEIGHBORING GALAXY
This is a Hubble Space Telescope mosaic of 414 photographs of the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy (M31). The vast panorama was assembled from nearly 8,000 separate exposures taken in near-ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. Embedded within this view...
Hubble Frontier Field Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon...
z~10 Galaxy Candidate in Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon...
Hubble Frontier Field Galaxy Cluster MACS J0416.1-2403
This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon...
Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24
Just in time for the release of the movie "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens," NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed what looks like a cosmic, double-bladed lightsaber. In the center of the image, partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star shoots twin...
Hubble SWEEPS Field
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. The smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars can yield clues to...
Sample of White Dwarfs in the Hubble SWEEPS Field
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. The smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars can yield clues to...
Hubble SWEEPS Field
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. The smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars can yield clues to...
Sample of White Dwarfs in the Hubble SWEEPS Field
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. The smoldering remnants of once-vibrant stars can yield clues to...
Veil Nebula Supernova Remnant
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled in stunning detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Called the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary...
Jupiter Global Map from Hubble OPAL Data, Rotation 2
The data in this Jupiter map were taken during Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program observations of the planet using the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from 15:00 UT to 23:40 UT on Jan. 19, 2015.
Jupiter Global Map from Hubble OPAL Data, Rotation 1
The data in this Jupiter map were taken during Hubble Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program observations of the planet using the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from 2:00 UT to 12:30 UT on Jan. 19, 2015.
MYSTERIOUS RIPPLES FOUND RACING THROUGH PLANET-FORMING DISK
AU MICROSCOPII This set of images of a 40-billion-mile-diameter edge-on disk encircling the young star AU Microscopii reveals a string of mysterious wave-like features. When astronomers compared images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken in 2010 and 2011, to a 2014 image from the European...
MYSTERIOUS RIPPLES FOUND RACING THROUGH PLANET-FORMING DISK
AU MICROSCOPII This set of images of a 40-billion-mile-diameter edge-on disk encircling the young star AU Microscopii reveals a string of mysterious wave-like features. When astronomers compared images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken in 2010 and 2011, to a 2014 image from the European...
MYSTERIOUS RIPPLES FOUND RACING THROUGH PLANET-FORMING DISK
AU MICROSCOPII This set of images of a 40-billion-mile-diameter edge-on disk encircling the young star AU Microscopii reveals a string of mysterious wave-like features. When astronomers compared images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken in 2010 and 2011, to a 2014 image from the European...
MYSTERIOUS RIPPLES FOUND RACING THROUGH PLANET-FORMING DISK
AU MICROSCOPII This set of images of a 40-billion-mile-diameter edge-on disk encircling the young star AU Microscopii reveals a string of mysterious wave-like features. When astronomers compared images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken in 2010 and 2011, to a 2014 image from the European...
GALAXY CLUSTER SPARCS1049+56
A massive cluster of galaxies, called SpARCS1049+56, can be seen in this two-panel, multi-wavelength view from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. At the middle of the picture is the largest, central member of the family of galaxies (upper right red dot of central pair). Unlike other...
Galaxy Cluster SpARCS1049+56
A massive cluster of galaxies, called SpARCS1049+56, can be seen in this two-panel, multi-wavelength view from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. At the middle of the picture is the largest, central member of the family of galaxies (upper right red dot of central pair). Unlike other...
Quasar Host Galaxy Markarian 231
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a bright starlike glow in the center of the interacting galaxy Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth. Located 581 million light-years away, we are seeing the galaxy as it looked before multicelled life first appeared on Earth. Quasars are powered...
Quasar Host Galaxy Markarian 231
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a bright starlike glow in the center of the interacting galaxy Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth. Located 581 million light-years away, we are seeing the galaxy as it looked before multicelled life first appeared on Earth. Quasars are powered...
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4589
A 2015 Hubble Space Telescope image of Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4589.
Elliptical Galaxy NCG 2768
A 2015 Hubble Space Telescope image of Elliptical Galaxy NCG 2768.
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