Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral – NASA Science
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a spiral galaxy struggling against titanic forces that…
NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month
Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29,…
NASA’s Hubble Captures Crimson Cloud Sparkling with White, Blue Stars
Like fresh fireworks launched against a background of dissipating smoke, blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a…
Be a Clump Scout and Help Reveal Secrets of Stellar Nurseries
In the mid-20th century, astronomers discovered strange “clumpy” galaxies filled with mysterious bright blobs – massive stellar nurseries…
Hubble Captures M88 on Journey to Center of Virgo Cluster
The focus of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is an active spiral galaxy on a journey lasting hundreds of millions of…
Hubble Sights Galaxy in Transition
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals an enigmatic galaxy with a bright center and a face that…
Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center
This VISTA VVV Survey image shows the galactic bulge near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the…
NASA’s Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula
This shimmering region of star-formation, a close-up of the Trifid Nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth, was captured…
Hubble Spies an Active Spiral
A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with…
NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion
A quarter-century after its first observations of the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a…
NASA’s Hubble Unexpectedly Catches Comet Breaking Up
In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of…
NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies
The low-surface-brightness galaxy CDG-2, within the dashed red circle at right, is dominated by dark matter and contains…