Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights – NASA Science

Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights – NASA Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along … Read more

Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds – NASA Science

Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds – NASA Science

The simulations used dots called tracer particles to traverse a molecular cloud and travel along with the material. As the particles travel, they record the density of the part of the cloud they encounter, building up a history of how pockets of density change over time. The researchers, who also included Liubin Pan from Sun … Read more

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball – NASA Science

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball – NASA Science

Hubble Space Telescope Home Hubble Sees a Celestial… Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Home Overview About Hubble The History of Hubble Hubble Timeline Why Have a Telescope in Space? Hubble by the Numbers At the Museum FAQs Impact & Benefits Hubble’s Impact & Benefits Science Impacts Cultural Impact Technology Benefits Impact on Human Spaceflight Astro Community … Read more

Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90 – NASA Science

Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90 – NASA Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern … Read more

Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts – NASA Science

Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts – NASA Science

NGC 5248 is one of the so-called ‘grand design’ spirals, with prominent spiral arms that reach from near the core out through the disk. It also has a faint bar structure at its center, between the inner ends of the spiral arms, which is not quite so obvious in this visible-light portrait from Hubble. Features … Read more

NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus – NASA Science

NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus – NASA Science

The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations. Lockheed Martin … Read more

NASA’s Hubble Watches Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball – NASA Science

NASA’s Hubble Watches Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball – NASA Science

The Hubble Space Telescope has been operating for over three decades and continues to make ground-breaking discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the universe. Hubble is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope and mission operations. Lockheed Martin … Read more

Hubble Observes a Peculiar Galaxy Shape – NASA Science

Hubble Observes a Peculiar Galaxy Shape – NASA Science

As this Hubble image reveals, NGC 4694’s dust forms chaotic structures that indicate some kind of disturbance. It turns out that the cloud of hydrogen gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a nearby, faint dwarf galaxy named VCC 2062. The two galaxies have undergone a violent collision, and the larger NGC 4694 … Read more

NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies – NASA

NASA Establishes New Class of Astrophysics Missions, Selects Studies – NASA

Two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space were selected by NASA for additional review, the agency announced Thursday. Each proposal team will receive $5 million to conduct a 12-month mission concept study. After detailed evaluation of those studies, NASA expects to select one concept in 2026 to proceed … Read more

Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral – NASA Science

Hubble Captures Stellar Nurseries in a Majestic Spiral – NASA Science

The data featured in this image come from a program that extends the cooperation among multiple observatories: Hubble, the infrared James Webb Space Telescope, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a ground-based radio telescope. By surveying IC 1954 and over 50 other nearby galaxies in radio, infrared, optical, and ultraviolet light, astronomers aim to fully … Read more