Billionaires are having a moment with space right now. Elon Musk with SpaceX, Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, even Richard Branson with Virgin Galactic — all the rich folks are building rockets so they can go look at space. But one billionaire isn’t satisfied with just looking at space: He wants to go touch it. … Read more
IRAS 16562-3959, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble used its Wide Field Camera 3 and four different filters to collect the data for this image. | Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Fedriani, J. Tan The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has done it again, delivering a spectacular image of the cosmos that is a … Read more
Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. A consequence of this is that newborn clusters of stars form along a stretched-out tidal tail for thousands of light-years, resembling a string of pearls. … Read more
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of much of the irregular galaxy ESO 245-5. The Hubble Space Telescope’s new Picture of the Week shows a remarkably dense field of stars. However, what at first glance looks like just a field of stars, spread somewhat irregularly through the frame, the photo shows a considerable portion … Read more
This is spiral galaxy UGC 3912 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope | Credits: NASA, ESA, and C. Kilpatrick (Northwestern University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) The spiral galaxy UGC 3912 doesn’t look like much of a spiral in a new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its unusual and distorted … Read more
NGC 3384 (left) and IC 438 (right) Not to be outdone by the James Webb Space Telescope and its beautiful new nebula image, the Hubble Space Telescope delivered a pair of fresh new space photos this week. The first image shows a galaxy, NGC 3384, as it settles into old age — not unlike Hubble … Read more
NASA shared this image to Instagram yesterday to emphasize the penguin and egg shape of ARP 142. NASA has shared an image of a pair of galaxies that look like a penguin and its egg millions of light-years from Earth. Taking to Instagram yesterday, NASA shared the image taken by its Hubble and Spitzer space … Read more
“This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy was observed by Hubble to study a supernova explosion in 2010 known as SN 2010jl.” | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko 150 million light-years from Earth, a relatively small … Read more
A collection of galaxies. On the left side a large spiral galaxy with swirling, twisted arms is flanked by a smaller, but still detailed, spiral behind its arm on the left, and a smaller spiral above it. On the right side is a fourth, round spiral galaxy seen face-on. Between them lies a single bright … Read more
Hubble is celebrating the holidays in style. The Hubble Space Telescope team is shedding light on Christmas-themed celestial objects, including the “Christmas Tree Cluster” and an ornament-shaped galaxy. NGC 2264, the “Christmas Tree Cluster,” shows a “cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights,” explains NASA. NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars aged … Read more