Using a powerful astronomical technique called gravitational lensing, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope made a stunning discovery — the first example...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy LEDA 16643, which is found in the constellation Lepus.
This image, taken with Hubble’s...
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a Boeing 747SP jetliner modified to carry a 100-inch telescope,...
A new study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison supports the idea that our Milky Way Galaxy and its neighbors exist in one of the holes, or voids, of...
Australian National University astrophysicist Dr. Roland Crocker and his colleagues from Europe, New Zealand, Australia and the United States have shown...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a distant galaxy as it begins to align with and pass behind a Sun-like star sitting nearer to...
Astronomers have watched as N6946-BH1, a red supergiant with a mass of 25 solar masses in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946, was likely reborn as a black hole.
This...
Pointing the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the well-known and often-studied galaxy Cygnus A for the first time in more than 20 years, astronomers...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures an ongoing cosmic collision between two massive galaxies.
This Hubble image shows the...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the best ever views of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 370. The image (hi-res version)...
This enormous image (zoomable version), captured with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope (VISTA), is the largest infrared image (43,223 x 38,236...
A wave spanning 200,000 light-years (about twice the size of our Milky Way Galaxy) is rolling through the Perseus Cluster, according to observations from...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5917.
This image snapped by Hubble’s WFC3 camera shows...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the galaxy NGC 7250.
This image shows the irregular galaxy NGC 7250, which lies...
The powerful vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to analyze for the first time the multiple images of a gravitationally...
In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a...
An international team of astronomers and astrophysicists, led by University of Utah, has detected supermassive black holes in two ultra-compact dwarf galaxies:...
