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Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System

December 17, 2022 Troy Oakes

A survey of the residual light in the night sky has uncovered an eerie, omnipresent glow spread throughout the Solar System, thought to be caused by sunlight reflected from cometary dust. (Image: NASA & ESA)

Hubble Telescope Captures Rare ‘Light Echo’ From Star Explosion

November 6, 2022 Troy Oakes

When a star explodes (a supernova), it sends its intense burst of light out in all directions. On rare occasions, in the months and years that follow, rings of light or ‘light echoes’ spread out from the original supernova position. (Image: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) via NASA / ESA /HEIC)

Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Slowly Recovers After Blowing Its Top

August 17, 2022 Troy Oakes

The sun routinely blows off parts of its tenuous outer atmosphere, the corona, in an event known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). But the Betelgeuse SME blasted off 400 billion times as much mass as a typical CME. (Image: L. Calcada via ESO)

Morning Star: Record-Breaking Star Is 28 Billion Light-Years Away

July 28, 2022 Nathan Machoka

A bright blue star shining in deep space.

A blue star similar to Earendel; the hot blue star that was 28 billion light-years away from Earth. (Image: Titoonz via Dreamstime)

The Supernova That Wasn’t: A Tale of 3 Cosmic Eruptions

May 12, 2022 Troy Oakes

Eta Carinae is a massive star, seen in this image undergoing a supernova-like eruption resulting in an hourglass firey shape surrounding the star.

The Homunculus nebula, a cloud consisting of stellar material hurled into space during the Great Eruption of the Eta Carinae star system.(Image: via NASA)

Hubble Observes a Not-so-Close Encounter

April 7, 2022March 15, 2022 Troy Oakes

Chance galactic alignments such as this provide astronomers with the opportunity to delve into the distribution of dust in these galaxies. (Image: via NASA)

Did NASA Really Discover HEAVEN With the Hubble Space Telescope?

April 2, 2022March 12, 2022 Just Strange

Did NASA really discover Heaven with the Hubble Space Telescope? (Image: Screenshot via YouTube)

Hubble Captures Swirling Galactic Trio

April 9, 2022February 27, 2022 Troy Oakes

The mass of dust and bright swirls of stars in this image is the distant galaxy merger IC 2431, which lies 681 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Cancer. (Image: via NASA)

Hubble Spots a Starship-Shaped Galactic Pair

April 11, 2022February 8, 2022 Troy Oakes

By happy coincidence, the collective interaction between these galaxies has caused the two on the upper right to form a shape, which from our solar system's perspective, resembles the starship known as the USS Enterprise from 'Star Trek'! (Image: via NASA)

Hubble Views the NGC 976 Galaxy in Aries

April 12, 2022January 21, 2022 Troy Oakes

The Hubble Space Telescope views the NGC 976 galaxy in the constellation Ares. (Image: via NASA)

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