This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc. This thin, rotating disc of…
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Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast,…
(Click for full view.) Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev NGC 4618 was discovered on April 9, 1787, by the German-British astronomer William Herschel, who…
This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar emits exceptionally large amounts of energy generated by…
This is an illustration of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at its center. A quasar emits exceptionally large amounts of energy generated by…
NGC 1589, a spiral galaxy, was once the scene of a violent bout of cosmic hunger pangs. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The subject of this…
The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, lies over 60…
In recognition of the Hubble Space Telescope’s scientific accomplishments and longevity, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has awarded their 2020 Collins…
Galaxy NGC 691, an archetypal spiral galaxy, was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This image of…
Caldwell 60/61. Credit: NASA This Hubble image shows two galaxies locked in a fateful embrace. Caldwell 60 (NGC 4038) and Caldwell 61 (NGC 4039) are…
On the left is an image of the Sombrero galaxy (M104) that includes a portion of the much fainter halo far outside its bright disk…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is no stranger to spiral galaxies. The telescope has brought us some of the most beautiful…
A barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 7541, seen here as viewed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in the constellation of Pisces (The Fishes).…
[embedded content] Hubble welcomes the Year of the Rat with a view of its own favorite rodents, NGC 4676A and B, and highlights the planetary…
This infographic compares the characteristics of three classes of stars in our galaxy: Sunlike stars are classified as G stars; stars less massive and cooler…
Each of these Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveals four distorted images of a background quasar surrounding the central core of a foreground massive galaxy.The multiple…
A galaxy named NGC 1803 as observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini et al. This bright, somewhat blob-like…
Galaxy NGC 2770. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Filippenko This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a close-up view of a galaxy…
This graphic illustrates how a faraway quasar’s light is altered by a massive foreground galaxy and by tiny dark matter clumps along the light path.…
Artist impression of the merging galaxy NGC 6240. Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello ALMA sees material around two growing supermassive black holes in unprecedented detail. An…