Oct 18, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the galaxy pair Arp 86. This composite image shows two interacting...

Oct 15, 2021 by News Staff

Observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in far-ultraviolet light of Jupiter’s icy moons were used in the past to detect molecular oxygen...

Oct 11, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this vivid image of a spiral galaxy called LEDA 42975. This Hubble image shows the...

Oct 8, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered an unusual gravitational lensing configuration, dubbed ‘Hamilton’s Object,’ consisting of two images of a clumpy spiral...

Oct 4, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The new image, which combines data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Victor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, captures...

Sep 28, 2021 by News Staff

Using data from the WFC3/UVIS instrument on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has measured the horizontal winds in Jupiter’s...

Sep 27, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 5728. This Hubble image shows the active...

Sep 23, 2021 by News Staff

Located in the southern constellation of Fornax, GAL-CLUS-022058-38303 is a so-called Einstein ring — a distorted image of a gravitationally lensed...

Sep 22, 2021 by News Staff

Massive galaxies in the early Universe should have contained large amounts of cold molecular gas, the fuel required to make stars. But new observations...

Sep 20, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the brilliance of a globular cluster called Palomar 6. This Hubble image shows the...

Sep 16, 2021 by News Staff

Until now, it has been unclear what created gamma-rays that appear in patches of seemingly ‘empty sky.’ Roth et al. present a calculation of the contribution...

Sep 13, 2021 by News Staff

The new composite images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveal the dual nature of the giant star AG Carinae. This Hubble image shows a giant...

Sep 9, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have measured the metallicity of the neutral interstellar medium towards 25 bright stars in our Milky...

Sep 7, 2021 by News Staff

Using high-resolution observational of two very similar globular clusters, Messier 3 and Messier 13, astronomers have found an unexpected overabundance...

Sep 6, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a distant globular cluster called NGC 6717. This Hubble image...

Aug 30, 2021 by News Staff

Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy (CARMA) and the NASA/ESA Hubble...

Aug 30, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have imaged HH 111, one of the most well-known Herbig-Haro objects. This Hubble image shows a Herbig-Haro...

Aug 23, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at an open cluster known as NGC 2164. This Hubble image shows NGC 2164,...

Aug 20, 2021 by News Staff

The near-Sun comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) is the first member of a long-period comet group observed to disintegrate well before its closest approach to the...

Aug 16, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a picture of a spiral galaxy called NGC 1385. This Hubble image shows the barred spiral...