Tag Archive for 'Hubble'

This image shows the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation as seen in visible light, capturing the multi-colored glow of gas clouds, wispy tendrils of dark cosmic dust, and the rust-colored elephants’ trunks of the nebula’s famous pillars. The dust and gas in the pillars is seared by the intense radiation from young stars and eroded by strong winds from massive nearby stars. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Hubble Heritage Team.

Astronomers Create Hubble Source Catalog

Mar 16, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has created a new comprehensive catalog of astronomical objects observed with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image shows...

This image shows the compact dwarf galaxy SBS 1415+437. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Alessandra Aloisi, STScI / Nick Rose.

Hubble Zeroes in on Compact Dwarf Galaxy SBS 1415+437

Mar 16, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked at a dwarf galaxy called SBS 1415+437 with unprecedented clarity. This image shows the...

This is an artist’s concept of the Jupiter’s moon Ganymede; two auroral ovals can be seen over northern and southern mid-latitudes. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI / J. Saur, University of Cologne.

Hubble Provides New Evidence for Subsurface Saltwater Ocean on Ganymede

Mar 13, 2015 by News Staff

Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered new evidence for a massive subterranean ocean on Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar...

This image shows the dwarf irregular galaxy UCG 8201. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Dwarf Irregular Galaxy UGC 8201

Mar 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of the M81 group post-starburst galaxy UGC 8201. This image shows...

This image shows four different images of SN Refsdal whose light has been distorted and magnified by the massive galaxy cluster MACS J1149+2223 in front of it. The huge mass of the cluster and one of the galaxies within it is bending the light from a supernova behind them and creating four separate images of the supernova. The light has been magnified and distorted due to gravitational lensing and as a result the images are arranged around the elliptical galaxy in a formation known as an Einstein cross. Image credit: NASA / ESA / S. Rodney, JHU / FrontierSN team / T. Treu, UCLA / P. Kelly, UC Berkeley / GLASS team / J. Lotz, STScI / Frontier Fields team / M. Postman, STScI / CLASH team / Z. Levay, STScI.

SN Refsdal: Hubble Spots Four Magnified Images of Same Supernova

Mar 6, 2015 by News Staff

Due to the gravitational lensing technique, a team of astronomers led by Dr Patrick Kelly from the University of California, Berkeley, has observed four...

This image from Hubble shows the T Tauri variable star V1331 Cyg. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Karl Stapelfeldt, GSFC / B. Stecklum & A. Choudhary, Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg.

Hubble Sees Young Star V1331 Cyg, Its Nebular Environment

Mar 3, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking image of a young variable star known as V1331 Cyg and its dusty environment. This...

The background image in this composite shows the Hubble image of the region known as the Hubble Deep Field South. New observations using VLT’s MUSE instrument have detected remote galaxies that are not visible to Hubble; two examples are highlighted in this composite view; these objects are completely invisible in the Hubble picture but show up strongly in the appropriate parts of the three-dimensional MUSE data. Image credit: ESO / MUSE Consortium / R. Bacon.

ESO’s VLT Telescope Sees Deep Universe in 3D

Feb 26, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile have been able to get...

This image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4424. To the left there are two bright objects in the frame: the brightest is another, smaller galaxy known as LEDA 213994, and the object closer to NGC 4424 is an anonymous star in our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Gilles Chapdelaine.

Hubble Presents Amazing New Image: NGC 4424

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

This new image from the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases NGC 4424, a 12th magnitude barred spiral galaxy...

Comparing Hubble images of the gas-and-dust disk encircling the young star Beta Pictoris taken in 1997 and 2012, astronomers find that the dust distribution has barely changed over 15 years despite the fact that the entire structure is orbiting the star like a carousel. Image credit: NASA / ESA / D. Apai, University of Arizona, Tucson / G. Schneider, University of Arizona, Tucson.

Hubble Sees Gas-and-Dust Disk around Beta Pictoris

Feb 23, 2015 by News Staff

Using the unique observing capabilities of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have produced the most detailed picture so far of an edge-on...

This image shows the location of the mysterious plume (circled) on Mars; south is up. Image credit: W. Jaeschke / D. Parker.

High-Altitude Clouds or Auroras? Researchers Puzzled by Mysterious Plumes on Mars

Feb 17, 2015 by News Staff

Strange plumes that have been observed above the surface of the Red Planet are baffling scientists. This image shows the location of the mysterious plume...

This image shows the globular star cluster Palomar 12. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Spies Distant Globular Cluster Palomar 12

Feb 16, 2015 by News Staff

The Advanced Camera for Surveys on board NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of a globular star cluster called Palomar 12. This...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Captures Smiling Galaxy Cluster

Feb 11, 2015 by News Staff

An unusual galaxy cluster called SDSS J1038+4849 appears to smile at us in a newly-released image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). This...

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 7814. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Snaps Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 7814 (Little Sombrero)

Feb 9, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a new image of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 7814. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope...

The Hubble image on the left (unlabeled at top left, labeled at bottom left) shows the beginning of the event, which took place on January 24, 2015. From left to right the moons Callisto and Io are above Jupiter's cloud tops. The shadows from Europa (not seen in the image), Callisto, and Io are strung out from left to right. Near the end of the event, approximately 42 minutes later (right-side image), Europa has entered the frame at lower left. Slower-moving Callisto is above and to the right of Europa. Fastest-moving Io is approaching the eastern limb of the planet; its shadow is no longer visible on Jupiter. Europa's shadow is toward the left side of the image, and Callisto's shadow to the right. Missing from the sequence is the moon Ganymede, which was outside Hubble's field of view and too far from Jupiter in angular separation to be considered part of the conjunction. The moons in these photos have distinctive colors. The ancient, cratered surface of Callisto is brownish; the smooth icy surface of Europa is yellow-white; and the volcanic, sulfur-dioxide surface of Io is orange. The apparent fuzziness of some of the shadows depends on the moons' distances from Jupiter. The farther away a moon is from the planet, the softer the shadow, because the shadow is more spread out across the disk. The images were taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in visible light. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA.

Hubble Sees Triple Transit of Galilean Moons

Feb 6, 2015 by News Staff

The Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare look at three of Galilean moons – Io, Callisto, and Europa –...

This image shows the peculiar galaxy Arp 230. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Galaxy Arp 230

Feb 4, 2015 by News Staff

A new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 230, a peculiar galaxy located at a distance of about 80 million light-years. This image shows...

This image combines X-ray data collected by XMM-Newton telescope (blue) with optical observations from Hubble (green and red). Image credit: ESA / XMM-Newton / Y.-H. Chu / R.A. Gruendl / M.A. Guerrero / N. Ruiz / NASA / Hubble team / A. Hajian / B. Balick.

Astronomers Release New Image of Planetary Nebula NGC 3242 (Jupiter’s Ghost)

Feb 3, 2015 by News Staff

Using two orbiting space telescopes, astronomers have captured a striking new image of the nebula NGC 3242. This image combines X-ray data collected by...

This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on Hubble, reveals the correlation of the gas clouds and stars in NGC 7714. The picture not only reveals the intricate structure of the galaxy, but also shows many other objects that are much further away. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science.

NASA’s Hubble Sees Starburst Galaxy NGC 7714

Jan 30, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the galaxy NGC 7714. This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera...

This image shows the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4217. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / R. Schoofs.

Astronomers Snap Image of Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 4217

Jan 26, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4217. This image shows the edge-on spiral...

This image shows the region around R Sculptoris. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA.

Hubble Focuses on Red Giant Star R Sculptoris

Jan 21, 2015 by News Staff

The region around a red giant star called R Sculptoris has been captured in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This image shows the region...

NGC 6861. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / J. Barrington.

Hubble Space Telescope Captures Lenticular Galaxy NGC 6861

Jan 20, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 6861. NGC 6861. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / J. Barrington. NGC...

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