NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a trio of merging galaxies in the Boötes constellation. (This is a cropped image. See the full image below.) Credit:…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observation time devoted to Saturn each year, thanks to the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, and the dynamic gas…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Donatiello II, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies. Credit:…
Hubble Space Telescope snapshot of the Tarantula Nebula (also known as 30 Doradus). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, E. Sabbi, Acknowledgment: Y.-H. Chu A…
This Hubble Space Telescope image features the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and its smaller companion in the upper left. Both are located in…
This Hubble Space Telescope image includes a host of astronomical objects. Strewn across the image are background galaxies ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals.…
This animation depicts a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A…
Tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31 peeks out from behind the glare of star TYC 7215-199-1, a Milky Way star positioned between Hubble and the galaxy. One…
Artist’s impression of two white dwarf stars merging and creating a Type Ia supernova. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada What Is a Supernova? Supernovae are dramatic explosions…
Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy LEDA 48062 in the constellation Perseus. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully This image from the NASAEstablished in 1958,…
There are numerous stars in giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies that wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze…
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 6355, globular cluster that lies less than 50,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy ESO 415-19, , which lies around 450 million light-years away. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy…
An artist’s rendition of a red supergiant star transitioning into a Type II supernova, emitting a violent eruption of radiation and gas on its dying…
Hubble Space Telescope image of open cluster NGC 6530. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, O. De Marco, Acknowledgment: M. H. Özsaraç This image from the…
This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Andi James (STScI) Exhaust…
Hubble Space Telescope image shows a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota, G. De Marchi This image from…