Tag Archive for 'Hubble'

This Hubble image shows Messier 72, a globular cluster some 50,000 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / A. Sarajedini / G. Piotto / M. Libralato.

Hubble Takes Closer Look at Globular Cluster Messier 72

Apr 21, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

As part of Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, astronomers have obtained a stunning new image of a rich collection of scattered stars called Messier...

This Hubble image shows Messier 104, a galaxy located 28 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / K. Noll.

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Messier 104

Apr 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

In anticipation of the upcoming 35th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Hubble team has released a beautiful new image of the Sombrero...

An artist’s impression of a magnetar. Image credit: ESA.

Runaway Magnetar is Traversing Milky Way from Unknown Place of Origin, Astronomers Say

Apr 15, 2025 by NASA

SGR 0501+4516 is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way Galaxy for a magnetar that was not born in a supernova explosion as initially predicted; the...

This Hubble image shows Messier 77, a barred spiral galaxy some 62 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instruments. It is based on data obtained through six filters. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L.C. Ho / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Snaps New Image of Messier 77

Apr 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released an incredibly beautiful image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77. This Hubble image shows Messier...

This image of Uranus’ aurorae was taken by Hubble on October 10, 2022. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / L. Lamy / L. Sromovsky.

Astronomers Measure Rotation Rate of Uranus with Unprecedented Precision

Apr 10, 2025 by News Staff

The rotation period of Uranus was estimated to be 17.24 hours in 1986 from radio auroral measurements made by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. Using the...

This Hubble image shows Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary nebula located 4,600 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / K. Noll.

Hubble Snaps Stunning Image of Little-Known Planetary Nebula

Apr 7, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Officially named Kohoutek 4-55, this little-known planetary nebula lies within our Milky Way Galaxy. This Hubble image shows Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary...

The image columns show the change of Uranus for the four years that Hubble’s STIS instrument observed Uranus across a 20-year period. Over that span of time, astronomers watched the seasons of Uranus as the south polar region (left) darkened going into winter shadow while the north polar region (right) brightened as it began to come into a more direct view as northern summer approaches. The top row, in visible light, shows how the color of Uranus appears to the human eye as seen through even an amateur telescope. In the second row, the false-color image of the planet is assembled from visible and near-infrared light observations. The color and brightness correspond to the amounts of methane and aerosols. Both of these quantities could not be distinguished before STIS was first aimed at Uranus in 2002. Generally, green areas indicate less methane than blue areas, and red areas show no methane. The red areas are at the limb, where the stratosphere of Uranus is almost completely devoid of methane. The two bottom rows show the latitude structure of aerosols and methane inferred from 1,000 different wavelengths (colors) from visible to near infrared. In the third row, bright areas indicate cloudier conditions, while the dark areas represent clearer conditions. In the fourth row, bright areas indicate depleted methane, while dark areas show the full amount of methane. At middle and low latitudes, aerosols and methane depletion have their own latitudinal structure that mostly did not change much over the two decades of observation. However, in the polar regions, aerosols and methane depletion behave very differently. In the third row, the aerosols near the north pole display a dramatic increase, showing up as very dark during early northern spring, turning very bright in recent years. Aerosols also seem to disappear at the left limb as the solar radiation disappeared. This is evidence that solar radiation changes the aerosol haze in the atmosphere of Uranus. On the other hand, methane depletion seems to stay quite high in both polar regions throughout the observing period. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Erich Karkoschka, LPL.

Hubble Sheds New Light on Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics of Uranus

Apr 1, 2025 by News Staff

A 20-year Hubble study of Uranus provide valuable data for understanding the atmospheric dynamics of this distant ice giant, which can serve as a proxy...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4941, a spiral galaxy some 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. The color image is composed of near-infrared, optical and ultraviolet observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Six filters were used to sample various wavelengths. The color results from assigning different hues to each monochromatic image associated with an individual filter. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 3274

Mar 31, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 4941. This Hubble image shows NGC 4941,...

This image shows the spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268-0449256 and its giant radio jets. Image credit: Bagchi et al. / Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.

Cosmic Anomaly: Massive Spiral Galaxy is Ejecting Colossal Pair of Relativistic Jets

Mar 24, 2025 by News Staff

2MASX J23453268-0449256 (J2345-0449 for short), an extremely massive, rapidly rotating, jet-launching spiral galaxy approximately 947 million light-years...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5530, a spiral galaxy some 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Lupus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Captures Stunning Image of NGC 5530

Mar 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the ‘flocculent’ spiral galaxy NGC 5530. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud near the center of the open cluster NGC 346. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Murray.

Hubble Focuses on Star-Studded Region in Neighbor Galaxy

Mar 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a small region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky...

This Hubble image shows NGC 4900, a spiral galaxy approximately 45 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / S.J. Smartt / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Space Telescope Spies NGC 4900

Mar 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4900. This Hubble image shows NGC 4900,...

This artist’s concept depicts one of the possible scenarios for the Altjira system in the Kuiper Belt. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Joseph Olmsted, STScI.

Kuiper-Belt Object Altjira is Likely a Hierarchical Triple System

Mar 4, 2025 by News Staff

Altjira, also known as 2001 UQ18, is located in the outer reaches of the Solar System, 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles) away, or 44 times the distance...

This Hubble image shows NGC 5042, an intermediate spiral galaxy some 48 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydra. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Space Telescope Looks at NGC 5042

Mar 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. This Hubble image...

This Hubble image shows part of the Veil Nebula. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R. Sankrit.

Hubble Space Telescope Explores Colorful Veil Nebula

Feb 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of a small fraction of the Veil Nebula, which is part of a supernova remnant called...

This Hubble image shows UGC 5460, a spiral galaxy some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / W. Jacobson-Galán / A. Filippenko / J. Mauerhan.

Hubble Captures Sparkling Spiral Galaxy Face-On: UGC 5460

Feb 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the spiral galaxy UGC 5460. This Hubble image shows UGC 5460,...

This Webb/NIRCam/MIRI shows the Herbig-Haro object HH 30. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Tazaki et al.

Webb Observes Mysterious Herbig-Haro Object in Taurus Molecular Cloud

Feb 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured...

Pasha et al. detected nine rings around LEDA 1313424, a ring galaxy approximately 567 million light-years away in the constellation of Pisces. They also confirmed which galaxy dove through LEDA 1313424, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Imad Pasha & Pieter van Dokkum, Yale University.

Astronomers Detect Nine Star-Filled Rings around Giant Galaxy

Feb 4, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI) at W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have identified nine...

This Hubble image LEDA 132905, a spiral galaxy over 400 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R.J. Foley, UC Santa Cruz.

Hubble Captures Type Ia Supernova and Its Host Galaxy

Feb 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A type Ia supernova event called SN 2022abvt was discovered two years ago in the spiral galaxy LEDA 132905. This Hubble image LEDA 132905, a spiral galaxy...

SN 2022aajn is visible as a blue dot at the center of this Hubble image, brightening the hazy body of WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / R.J. Foley, UC Santa Cruz.

Hubble Zooms in on Supernova-Hosting Galaxy

Jan 27, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of a little-known galaxy called WISEA J070815.11+210422.3. SN 2022aajn is visible as...

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