SN 2017EIN IN NGC 3938
ASTRONOMERS FIND A SUPERNOVA'S PROGENITOR STAR IN HUBBLE IMAGES
ARTIST'S ILLUSTRATION OF SN 2017EIN
ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF PROGENITOR STAR TO A TYPE IC SUPERNOVA
STELLAR THIEF IS THE SURVIVING COMPANION TO A SUPERNOVA
Companion to a Supernova is No Innocent Bystander In the fading afterglow of a supernova explosion, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova. This is the most compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in...
STELLAR THIEF IS THE SURVIVING COMPANION TO A SUPERNOVA
Companion to a Supernova is No Innocent Bystander In the fading afterglow of a supernova explosion, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova. This is the most compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in...
STELLAR THIEF IS THE SURVIVING COMPANION TO A SUPERNOVA
Companion to a Supernova is No Innocent Bystander In the fading afterglow of a supernova explosion, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have photographed the first image of a surviving companion to a supernova. This is the most compelling evidence that some supernovas originate in...
Kepler Solves Mystery of Fast and Furious Explosions
Space Observatory Captures the Details of an Unusual Stellar Detonation The universe is so huge that it's estimated that a star explodes as a supernova once every second. Astronomers capture a small fraction of these detonations because they are comparatively short-lived, like fireflies...
Three Steps to the Hubble Constant
Hubble Helps Astronomers Measure Accurate Distances to Galaxies
Three Steps to the Hubble Constant
Hubble Helps Astronomers Measure Accurate Distances to Galaxies
Three Steps to the Hubble Constant
Hubble Helps Astronomers Measure Accurate Distances to Galaxies
Three Steps to the Hubble Constant
Hubble Helps Astronomers Measure Accurate Distances to Galaxies
Three Steps to the Hubble Constant
Hubble Helps Astronomers Measure Accurate Distances to Galaxies
Light from Supernova Bouncing Off Giant Dust Cloud
Hubble Spots Expanding Light Echo around Supernova
Light from Supernova Bouncing Off Giant Dust Cloud
Hubble Spots Expanding Light Echo around Supernova
Dying Young: Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges the Picture of How Galaxies Evolve
By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of very compact yet massive disk-shaped and rotating galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang....
Dying Young: Massive Dead Disk Galaxy Challenges the Picture of How Galaxies Evolve
By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of very compact yet massive disk-shaped and rotating galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang....
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Colorful New Portrait Shows Energetic Details Embedded in Supernova Remnant In the summer of the year 1054 AD, Chinese astronomers saw a new "guest star," that appeared six times brighter than Venus. So bright in fact, it could be seen during the daytime for several months. Halfway around the...
Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole
Massive Dying Star Goes Out With a Whimper Instead of a Bang Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some super-massive stars go out with a whimper instead of a bang. When they do, they can collapse under the crushing tug of gravity and vanish out of sight,...
Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole
Massive Dying Star Goes Out With a Whimper Instead of a Bang Every second a star somewhere out in the universe explodes as a supernova. But some super-massive stars go out with a whimper instead of a bang. When they do, they can collapse under the crushing tug of gravity and vanish out of sight,...
Massive Star Goes Out With a Whimper Instead of a Bang (Artist's Illustration)
This illustration shows the final stages in the life of a supermassive star that fails to explode as a supernova but instead implodes under gravity to form a black hole. From left to right: the massive star has evolved to a red supergiant, the envelope of the star is ejected and expands,...
Search For Stellar Survivor of a Supernova Explosion
Star might answer question of how white dwarfs explode Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable brightness lets astronomers measure the expansion of the universe, which led to the discovery of dark energy. Yet the cause...
The Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A
In February 1987, on a mountaintop in Chile, telescope operator Oscar Duhalde stood outside the observatory at Las Campanas and looked up at the clear night sky. There, in a hazy-looking patch of brightness in the sky — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a neighboring galaxy - was a bright star he...
A Death Star's Ghostly Glow
In writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a killer confesses his crime after he thinks he hears the beating of his victim's heart. The heartbeat turns out to be an illusion. Astronomers, however, discovered a real "tell-tale heart" in space, 6,500 light-years from Earth. The...
A Death Star's Ghostly Glow
In writer Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart," a killer confesses his crime after he thinks he hears the beating of his victim's heart. The heartbeat turns out to be an illusion. Astronomers, however, discovered a real "tell-tale heart" in space, 6,500 light-years from Earth. The...
Hubble Captures the Beating Heart of the Crab Nebula
At the center of the Crab Nebula, located in the constellation Taurus, lies a celestial "beating heart" that is an example of extreme physics in space. The tiny object blasts out blistering pulses of radiation 30 times a second with unbelievable clock-like precision. Astronomers soon figured out...
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...
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...
Supernova Refsdal (Multiply Imaged and Gravitationally Lensed by Galaxy Cluster)
A 2015 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN Refsdal
Galaxy Cluster MACS J1149.6+2223 and Supernova Refsdal
A 2015 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN Refsdal, MACS J1149.6+2223
HST ACS Image of M81
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1993J, Supernova 1993J.
HST WFC3 Image of Supernova 1993J
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 1993J, Supernova 1993J.
2013 Hubble Image of Supernova 2012Z
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova 2012Z, NGC 1309.
Spiral Galaxy NGC 1309
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova 2012Z, NGC 1309.
2005-2006 Hubble Images of Progenitor System for Supernova 2012Z
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova 2012Z, NGC 1309.
Galaxy Cluster RXJ1532.9+3021
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of RXJ1532.9+3021, Supernova Didius.
Galaxy Cluster Abell 383
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Abell 383, Supernova Tiberius.
Supernova Didius (After Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova Didius (After Outburst).
Supernova Didius (Before Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova Didius (Before Outburst).
Galaxy Cluster MACS J1720.2+3536
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova SCP/SN-L2, SN CL012Car, Caracalla, MACS J1720.2+3536.
Supernova Tiberius (After Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova Tiberius (After Outburst).
Supernova Tiberius (Before Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova Tiberius (Before Outburst).
Supernova SCP/SN-L2, SN CL012Car, Caracalla (After Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova SCP/SN-L2, SN CL012Car, Caracalla.
Supernova SCP/SN-L2, SN CL012Car, Caracalla (Before Outburst)
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope Image of Supernova SCP/SN-L2, SN CL012Car, Caracalla.
M82 Hubble Mosaic with 2014 Supernova
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 2014J, M82, NGC 3034.
Supernova in M82
A 2014 Hubble Space Telescope image of SN 2014J, M82, NGC 3034.
Spiral Galaxy M83
A photogenic and favorite target for amateur astronomers, the full beauty of nearby spiral galaxy M83 is unveiled in all of its glory in this Hubble Space Telescope mosaic image. The vibrant magentas and blues reveal the galaxy is ablaze with star formation. The galaxy, also known as the ...
CANDELS Ultra Deep Survey (UDS)
A 2013 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova Wilson, SN UDS10Wil.
SN UDS10Wil with Host Galaxy Subtracted
A 2013 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova Wilson, SN UDS10Wil.
SN UDS10Wil with Host Galaxy
A 2013 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova Wilson, SN UDS10Wil.
SN UDS10Wil's Host Galaxy
A 2013 Hubble Space Telescope image of Supernova Wilson, SN UDS10Wil.
Hubble's Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-making Region
Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula. Early astronomers nicknamed the nebula because its glowing filaments resemble spider legs. 30 Doradus...
Monster Galaxy Lacks a Bright Core
The giant elliptical galaxy in the center of this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is the most massive and brightest member of the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Spanning a little more than one million light-years, the galaxy is about 10 times the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy....
Optical and X-ray Composite Image of SNR 0509-67.5
This image of supernova remnant 0509-67.5 was made by combining data from two of NASA's Great Observatories. Optical data of SNR 0509-67.5 and its accompanying star field, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope, are composited with X-ray images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The result...
Hubble Ultra Deep Field Continues to Tell the Unfolding Story of the Universe
Beginning in 2004, the Hubble Space Telescope has observed a spot in the sky known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) many times. The extremely deep and detailed cumulative exposure reveals some of the faintest objects ever detected, some of which turn out also to be among the most distant...
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