Tag Archive for 'ESA'

This Hubble image shows the massive star cluster NGC 339. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Sees Massive Star Cluster in Small Magellanic Cloud

Apr 25, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the star cluster NGC 339. This Hubble image shows the massive star cluster NGC 339....

Venus in real colors, processed from Mariner 10 images. Image credit: Mattias Malmer / NASA.

ESA’s Venus Express Finds Atmospheric Gravity Waves in Venusian Polar Atmosphere

Apr 23, 2016 by News Staff

Strong atmospheric gravity waves dominate the polar regions of Venus’ atmosphere, according to measurements made by ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft...

NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Spots Elegant Galaxy

Apr 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the beautiful and elegant galaxy NGC 4111. NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy...

This Hubble image, released to celebrate its 26th year in orbit, shows the Bubble Nebula, an emission nebula located 7,100 light-years away. This image allows us to fully appreciate the almost perfectly symmetrical shell which gives the nebula its name. The bright star visible just to the left of center is the Wolf-Rayet star SAO 20575. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team.

Hubble Celebrates 26th Anniversary with Incredible Image of Bubble Nebula

Apr 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

In celebration of the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured an amazing image of the Bubble Nebula...

Cassini Samples, Analyzes Interstellar Dust at Saturn

Apr 15, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from outside our Solar System, from the Local Interstellar...

This Hubble image shows the low surface brightness galaxy UGC 477, which lies in the constellation of Pisces, about 115 million light-years away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Astronomers Take Stunning Image of UGC 477

Apr 11, 2016 by News Staff

Hubble astronomers provide a beautiful look inside UGC 477, a type of galaxy known as a low surface brightness galaxy. This Hubble image shows the low...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the nearby irregular dwarf galaxy Leo A. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Leo A

Apr 11, 2016 by Natali Anderson

NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an irregular dwarf galaxy known as Leo A. This image from the NASA/ESA...

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1600, approximately 200 million light-years away - shown in the center of the Hubble image and highlighted in the box - hosts in its centre one of the biggest supermassive black holes known. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Digital Sky Survey 2.

Astronomers Find Extremely Massive Black Hole in NGC 1600

Apr 7, 2016 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns in the center of the relatively...

This infrared image from Hubble shows Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster, the densest and most massive star cluster in our Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / T. Do & A. Ghez, UCLA / V. Bajaj, STScI.

Hubble Focuses on Milky Way’s Nuclear Star Cluster

Apr 2, 2016 by News Staff

The infrared vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way Galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at...

This image, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows an irregular dwarf galaxy known as UGC 4459, lying about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Sees Beautiful Dwarf Galaxy

Mar 28, 2016 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of UGC 4459, a type of galaxy known as an irregular dwarf galaxy. This image, taken by...

In an artist’s conception, heated galactic wind shown in the hazy portion of the picture emanates from the bright quasar at the edge of a black hole, scattering dust and gas. If allowed to cool, that dust and gas would begin to form stars. Image credit: Johns Hopkins University.

Ancient Quasars Slowed Star Formation 11 Billion Years Ago, Scientists Say

Mar 24, 2016 by News Staff

Researchers appear to have an explanation for a longstanding question in astrophysics: why did the pace of star formation in the Universe slow down 11...

This image of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416 combines data from three telescopes - Hubble (showing the galaxies and stars), Chandra (diffuse emission in blue), and the Jansky Very Large Array (diffuse emission in pink). MACS J0416 acts as a powerful natural lens by bending and magnifying the light of far-more-distant objects behind it. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CXC / NRAO / AUI / NSF / STScI / G. Ogrean, Stanford University / J. Lotz, STScI / HFF Team.

Astronomers Snap Image of Huge Cluster of Galaxies

Mar 21, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1-2403. This image of the galaxy cluster MACS J0416 combines...

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...

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