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Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster - NASA Science
Roughly 210,000 light-years away, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of our Milky Way galaxy’s closest neighbors. In fact, this small galaxy is one of the Milky Way’s “satellite” galaxies, which orbit our home spiral galaxy.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Reaches a Lonely Light in the Dark - NASA Science
A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Finds Structure in an Unstructured Galaxy - NASA Science
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the nearby dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A, located some 2.6 million light-years away.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Star-forming Powerhouse - NASA Science
This view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope plunges into the center of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (M33), also known as the Triangulum Galaxy.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Examines a Possible Relic - NASA Science
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the dwarf irregular galaxy UGC 4879 or VV124. As this image illustrates, Hubble’s high resolution can detect individual stars, even in the densest parts of the galaxy.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Spots Billowing Bubbles of Stellar Floss - NASA Science
A bubbling region of stars both old and new lies some 160,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado.science.nasa.gov
NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science
Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into inte…science.nasa.gov
Hubble Measures the Distance to a Supernova - NASA Science
Measuring the distance to truly remote objects like galaxies, quasars, and galaxy clusters is a crucial task in astrophysics, particularly when it comes to studying the early universe, but it’s a difficult one to complete.science.nasa.gov
NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri - NASA Science
Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large galaxies, or relatively lightweight, with a mass of under 100 times that of the Sun.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Captures Celestial Fireworks Around Forming Star - NASA Science
The colors within this mid-infrared image reveal details about the central protostar’s behavior. The cosmos seems to come alive with a crackling explosion of pyrotechnics in this new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula - NASA
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is locatedNASA
Hubble Captures Infant Stars Transforming a Nebula - NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. Named RCW 7, the nebula is located just over 5,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.science.nasa.gov
NASA's Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars - NASA
The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like itNASA
Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA’s Webb - NASA Science
New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion. A team of scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to parse the composition of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant located 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Captures a Cosmic Fossil - NASA
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself,NASA
Hubble Observes a Cosmic Fossil - NASA Science
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the globular cluster NGC 2005. It’s not an unusual globular cluster in and of itself, but it is a peculiarity when compared to its surroundings.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Webb Reveals Long-Studied Star Is Actually Twins - NASA
Managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument also revealed jets of gas flowing into space from the twin stars.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
Coming in Hot — NASA's Chandra Checks Habitability of Exoplanets - NASA
Astronomers are using these X-ray data to determine how habitable exoplanets may be based on whether they receive lethal radiation from the stars they orbit,Lee Mohon (NASA)
Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That Erupted 40 Years Ago - NASA Science
Astronomers have used new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as well as archival data from other missions to revisit one of the strangest binary star systems in our galaxy …science.nasa.gov
'Super' Star Cluster Shines in New Look From NASA's Chandra - NASA
Westerlund 1 is the biggest and closest “super” star cluster to Earth. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, in combination withNASA
Webb Spots a Starburst - NASA
The James Webb Space Telescope observed “starburst” galaxy NGC 4449, seen in this image released on May 29, 2024. Starbursts are intense periods of starNASA
Travel Through Data From Space in New 3D Instagram Experiences - NASA
A new project provides special 3D “experiences” on Instagram using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes through augmented realityLee Mohon (NASA)
New Images From Euclid Mission Reveal Wide View of the Dark Universe - NASA
With NASA contributions, the mission will complement dark energy studies to be made by the agency’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star - NASA
Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image fromNASA
Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star - NASA Science
Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
A Solar Neighborhood Census, Thanks to NASA Citizen Science
To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won’t work. Scientists need to use many telescopes with different specializations to chart what is in the general neighborhood of the Sun.science.nasa.gov
How NASA's Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars - NASA
Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun hasAshley Balzer (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Probes an Extreme Starburst Galaxy
Amid a site teeming with new and young stars lies an intricate substructure. A team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to survey the starburst galaxy Messier 82 (M82).science.nasa.gov
Hubble Finds a Field of Stars
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster image, NGC 1651 is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, t…science.nasa.gov
Three-Year Study of Young Stars with NASA's Hubble Enters New Chapter
In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period.science.nasa.gov
Stunning Echo of 800-year-old Explosion - NASA
In the year 1181 a rare supernova explosion appeared in the night sky, staying visible for 185 consecutive days. Historical records show that theNASA
Hubble Sees New Star Proclaiming Presence with Cosmic Lightshow
Jets emerge from the cocoon of a newly forming star to blast across space, slicing through the gas and dust of a shining nebula in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.science.nasa.gov
Cheers! NASA’s Webb Finds Ethanol, Other Icy Ingredients for Worlds
What do margaritas, vinegar, and ant stings have in common? They contain chemical ingredients that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified surrounding two young protostars known as IRAS 2A and IRAS 23385.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Roman Team Selects Survey to Map Our Galaxy’s Far Side - NASA
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has announced plans for an unprecedented survey of the plane of our Milky Way galaxy. It will peer deeper intoAshley Balzer (NASA)
Hubble Uncovers a Celestial Fossil - NASA Science
This densely populated group of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1841, which is part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way galaxy that lies about 162,000 light-years away.science.nasa.gov
Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the best evidence yet for emission from a neutron star at the site of a recently observed supernova.science.nasa.gov
Hubble Views a Massive Star Forming - NASA Science
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is teeming with color and activity. It features a relatively close star-forming region known as IRAS 16562-3959, which lies within the Milky Way about 5,900 light-years from Earth in the constellati…science.nasa.gov
Stars Sparkle in New Hubble Image - NASA Science
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope view shows the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.science.nasa.gov
NASA’s Roman to Use Rare Events to Calculate Expansion Rate of Universe - NASA
Astronomers investigating one of the most pressing mysteries of the cosmos – the rate at which the universe is expanding – are readying themselves to studyAshley Balzer (NASA)
Gamma-ray Bursts: Harvesting Knowledge From the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions - NASA Science
The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light. They can erupt with a quintillion (a 10 followed by 18 zeros) times the luminosity of our Sun.science.nasa.gov