The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System. This is the realm of the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to ...
This jewel-bright image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 2903. The telescope captured this image using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), installed in 2002 and 2009 respectively. Interestingly, it observed this particular galaxy in 2001, before the ACS and the WFC3 were installed. ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features two interacting galaxies that are so intertwined that have a collective name — Arp 91. Their delicate galactic dance takes place more than 100 million light-years from Earth. The two galaxies comprising Arp 91 have their own names: The lower galaxy, which looks like a bright spot, is ...
Astronomers have seen some pretty weird things scattered across our vast universe, from exploding stars to colliding galaxies. So you’d think that when they see a strange celestial object, they would be able to identify it. However, this double galaxy stumped them for years. But NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uncovered what appears to be a ...
Like the speed of an advancing race car driver, the winds in the outermost “lane” of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot are accelerating — a discovery only made possible by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which has monitored the planet for more than a decade. Researchers analyzing Hubble’s regular “storm reports” found that the average wind speed ...
Nestled among the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of our own solar system. The image below is from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and features AFGL 5180, a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (the Twins). At the center of the image, a massive star is ...
The center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is framed by the tell-tale arcs that result from strong gravitational lensing, a striking astronomical phenomenon that can warp, magnify, or even duplicate the appearance of distant galaxies. Gravitational lensing Gravitational lensing occurs when light from a distant galaxy is subtly distorted by the ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star. Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin said: “We just don’t know very much about how giant planets grow. This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness ...
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” one of the brightest stars seen in our galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust. The price for the monster star’s opulence is “living on the edge.” The ...
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides further evidence for tidal disruption in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF4. This result explains a previous finding that this galaxy is missing most of its dark matter. By studying the galaxy’s light and globular cluster distribution, astronomers have concluded that the gravitational forces of the neighboring galaxy ...
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