Tag Archive for 'ESA'

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of R136, a young star cluster in 30 Doradus. The image is composed of observations from both Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Paul Crowther, University of Sheffield.

Hubble Discovers Nine Extremely Massive Stars in R136

Mar 17, 2016 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have identified nine extremely massive stars in the young star cluster R136. In this image, the...

Artist’s impression visualizing the ExoMars 2016 TGO, with its thrusters firing, beginning its entry into Mars orbit. Image credit: ESA / ATG medialab.

ExoMars 2016 Blasts Off from Baikonur

Mar 14, 2016 by News Staff

The ExoMars 2016 mission blasted off from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Proton-M rocket at 02:31 a.m. PDT (05:31 a.m. EDT, 09:31 a.m. GMT,...

This composite image of the galaxy cluster MACS J0717 was made by combining data from NASA’s Chandra and Hubble space telescopes, and NRAO’s Jansky Very Large Array. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CXC / NRAO / AUI / NSF / STScI / R. van Weeren, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / J. Lotz, STScI / HFF Team.

Three Telescopes Capture Image of Extremely Distant Galaxy Cluster

Mar 14, 2016 by Natali Anderson

NRAO’s Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array and two of NASA’s space telescopes — Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble — have captured a stunning...

This Hubble image shows thousands of galaxies swimming in the inky blackness of space; a few foreground stars from our Milky Way Galaxy are also visible. Image credit: NASA / ESA / HST Frontier Fields Team / STScI / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Focuses on Pandora’s Box

Mar 7, 2016 by News Staff

This parallel field observation from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a diverse collection of galaxies in the direction of the constellation Sculptor. This...

GN-z11. Image credit: NASA / ESA / P. Oesch, Yale University / G. Brammer, STScI / P. van Dokkum, Yale University / G. Illingworth, University of California, Santa Cruz.

GN-z11: Astronomers Discover Farthest Galaxy Yet

Mar 3, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have found a surprisingly bright, infant galaxy 13.4 billion light-years from us, making it the...

The emission-line star Hen 2-80 (center) and surroundings. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Sees Unusual Star

Feb 29, 2016 by News Staff

The subject of this Hubble image is Hen 2-80, a star located in the constellation Crux at a distance of approximately 2,300 light-years away from Earth. The...

This Hubble image shows WR 31a, a type of star known as a Wolf–Rayet star. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps Incredible Image of Wolf-Rayet Star

Feb 22, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

WR 31a, a rare example of a massive star, is the subject of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This Hubble image shows WR 31a, a type...

Illustration of the super-Jupiter 2M1207b. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI / Y. Zhou, University of Arizona.

Astronomers Measure Rotation of Cloudy Super-Jupiter

Feb 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a giant extrasolar planet called 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254b has patchy clouds and...

This image shows NGC 4889 (largest object) in front of hundreds of background galaxies. Image credit: NASA / ESA.

NGC 4889: Hubble Focuses on Distant Elliptical Galaxy

Feb 17, 2016 by News Staff

This incredible image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the giant elliptical galaxy...

This Hubble ACS image shows the irregular reflection nebula IRAS 00044+6521. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Beams Back Spectacular Image of Reflection Nebula

Feb 15, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a remarkable image of a reflection nebula known as IRAS 00044+6521. This Hubble ACS image shows the irregular...

This Hubble image shows the young planetary nebula Hen 2-437. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Sees Young Bipolar Planetary Nebula

Feb 8, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the startlingly symmetrical nebula Hen 2-437. This Hubble image shows the young planetary...

NGC 1487, pictured in this Hubble WFPC2 image, is the result of a merger between two or more smaller galaxies. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NGC 1487: Hubble Space Telescope Captures Beautiful Galactic Merger

Feb 1, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an amazing picture of a peculiar galaxy, NGC 1487. NGC 1487, pictured in this Hubble WFPC2 image, is the...

This composite image shows the size and location of the Smith Cloud on the sky. The cloud is 15 degrees across in angular size - the width of an outstretched hand at arm’s length. The apparent size of the full Moon is added for comparison. The Smith Cloud appears in false-color, radio wavelengths. The visible-light image of the background star field shows the cloud’s location in the direction of the summer constellation Aquila. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Z. Levay, STScI / B. Saxton / F. Lockman / NRAO / AUI / NSF / A. Mellinger.

Astronomers Shed Light on Chemical Composition, Origin of Mysterious Smith Cloud

Jan 29, 2016 by News Staff

Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found faint chemical traces of our Milky Way Galaxy lurking inside the Smith Cloud, a gigantic...

This Hubble image shows the globular star cluster NGC 1783. It is one of the biggest globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way Galaxy. First observed by the British astronomer John Herschel in 1835, this star cluster is approximately 160,000 light-years from our Solar System, and has a mass around 170,000 times that of the Sun. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, geckzilla.com.

Study Reveals Why Globular Clusters Can Be Home to Different Generations of Stars

Jan 28, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new study published this week in the journal Nature, globular clusters make new stars by adopting stray cosmic gas and dust. This Hubble...

Visible in this image are galaxies within the galaxy cluster Abell 428: the jet-producing spiral galaxy LEDA 97372 (left) and the spiral galaxy [LOY2001] J031549.8-190623 (right). Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Sees Spirals in Galaxy Cluster Abell 428

Jan 25, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

Two bright objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image are massive spiral galaxies in the galaxy cluster known as Abell 428, in the constellation of Eridanus,...

This composite image of the star cluster Trumpler 14 was made with data taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Jesús Maíz Apellániz, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Spots Glittering Star Cluster Trumpler 14

Jan 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has obtained a stunning image of a star cluster called Trumpler 14, one of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the irregular galaxy NGC 5408, which is located 17.4 million light-years from Earth. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NGC 5408: Hubble Snaps Image of Little-Known Irregular Galaxy

Jan 18, 2016 by Natali Anderson

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredible image of the nearby galaxy NGC 5408. This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

This Hubble image shows the green pea galaxy J0925+1403. Image credit: NASA.

Green Pea Galaxies Reionized Early Universe, Astronomers Say

Jan 14, 2016 by News Staff

According to a multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Yuri Izotov from the Main Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine, so-called ‘green pea’ galaxies...

This Hubble image shows the young merging galaxy NGC 3597. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NGC 3597: Hubble Captures Young Merging Galaxy

Jan 11, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 3597. This Hubble image shows the young merging...

Eta Carinae’s great eruption in the 1840s created the billowing Homunculus Nebula, imaged here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble SM4 ERO Team.

Astronomers Find Five Supergiant Stars Far Beyond Milky Way Galaxy

Jan 11, 2016 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble and NASA’s Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers have discovered five very luminous and massive stellar systems in the star-forming...

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