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…
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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…
This Hubble Space Telescope photograph showcases the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 2885, located 232 million light-years away in the northern constellation Perseus. The galaxy is…
This new multiwavelength image of the Crab Nebula combines X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (in blue) with visible light from the Hubble Space…
Spiral galaxy named NGC 4455. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, I. Karachentsev et al. This smattering of celestial sequins is a spiral galaxy named NGC 4455,…
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image capturing UGC 477, a low surface brightness galaxy located just over 110 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces…
Radio image of Jupiter made with ALMA. Bright bands indicate high temperatures and dark bands low temperatures. The dark bands correspond to the zones on…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al. This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust, and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO…
This illustration depicts the Sun-like star Kepler 51 and three giant planets that NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovered in 2012–2014. These planets are all roughly…
This Hubblecast explores how the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s observations differ across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, and how these observations will be complemented…
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows IC 2051, a galaxy in the southern constellation of Mensa (The Table Mountain), lying about 85…
Artist’s impression of a young galaxy surrounded by a huge gaseous cloud. Credit: NAOJ ALMA Spots Earliest Environment Pollution in the Universe Researchers have discovered…
Galaxy NGC 3175. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al. NGC 3175 is located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Antlia…
Galaxy NGC 5468. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Li et al. Some of the most dramatic events in the Universe occur when certain stars die…
Some galaxies are closer friends than others. While many live their own separate, solitary lives, others stray a little too close to a near neighbor…
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have investigated the nature of the powerful gamma-ray burst GRB 190114C by studying its environment. Shown in this…