Tag Archive for 'Hubble'

Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the UV side of a familiar face. At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda galaxy is our Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor. The galaxy spans 260,000 light-years across. The bands of blue-white making up the galaxy's striking rings are neighborhoods that harbor hot, young, massive stars. Dark blue-grey lanes of cooler dust show up starkly against these bright rings, tracing the regions where star formation is currently taking place in dense cloudy cocoons. Eventually, these dusty lanes will be blown away by strong stellar winds, as the forming stars ignite nuclear fusion in their cores. Meanwhile, the central orange-white ball reveals a congregation of cooler, old stars that formed long ago. When observed in visible light, the galaxy’s rings look more like spiral arms. The UV image shows that these arms more closely resemble the ring-like structure previously observed in infrared wavelengths with NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope; astronomers interpreted these rings as evidence that the galaxy was involved in a direct collision with its neighbor, Messier 32, more than 200 million years ago. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

New Study Reveals Turbulent History of Andromeda Galaxy

Jan 12, 2015 by News Staff

A study of the motions of different stellar populations in the Andromeda’s disk has revealed a violent history of mergers with dwarf galaxies in the...

Andromeda Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / University of Washington / PHAT team / J. Dalcanton / B. F. Williams / L. C. Johnson / R. Gendler.

Astronomers Snap Sharpest, Biggest Image Ever of Andromeda Galaxy

Jan 10, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the sharpest image ever taken of our galactic...

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.

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation

Jan 8, 2015 by News Staff

In celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous pillars, providing astronomers with a sharper...

NGC 6535. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / Gilles Chapdelaine.

Hubble Zooms in on Globular Star Cluster NGC 6535

Jan 5, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a globular cluster called NGC 6535. NGC 6535. Image credit: ESA...

This Hubble image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies. Image credit: ESA / NASA / Hubble.

Astronomers Snap Dazzling New Image of Edge-On Galaxy IC 335

Dec 26, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the edge-on lenticular galaxy IC 335. This Hubble image shows the...

This image shows the newly discovered dwarf galaxy Kks3. The core of the galaxy is the right hand object at the top center of the image, with its stars spreading out over a large section around it; the left hand of the two objects is a much nearer globular star cluster. Image credit: Dimitry Makarov.

Kks3: Hubble Discovers New Neighbor Galaxy to Milky Way

Dec 23, 2014 by News Staff

A new neighbor of our Milky Way Galaxy has been discovered with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) instrument on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This...

X-ray data from Chandra have revealed that NGC 2207 (left) and IC 2163, currently in the process of colliding with one another, have produced one of the most bountiful collections of super bright X-ray lights called ultraluminous X-ray sources. Image credit: X-ray – NASA / CXC / SAO / S.Mineo et al; optical – NASA / STScI; infrared: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Space Observatories Zero in on Colliding Galaxy Pair NGC 2207 – IC 2163

Dec 14, 2014 by News Staff

A spectacular cosmic collision between the spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 has been caught in a composite image generated by NASA’s Chandra X-ray...

Color composite image of the starburst spiral galaxy NGC 4102 obtained with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / S. Smartt, Queen's University Belfast / Renaud Houdinet.

Hubble Captures Starburst Spiral Galaxy NGC 4102

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

NASA has released a dazzling image from the Hubble Space Telescope, showing a nearby spiral galaxy called NGC 4102. Color composite image of the starburst...

This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281. Image credit: ESA / NASA / Luca Limatola.

Astronomers Zoom in on Dwarf Galaxy UGC 1281

Dec 1, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281. This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....

This image shows four globular clusters in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, from left to right, top to bottom: Fornax 1, Fornax 2, Fornax 3 and Fornax 5. Image credit: NASA / ESA / S. Larsen, Radboud University, the Netherlands.

Mystery of Globular Star Clusters’ Formation Deepens

Nov 26, 2014 by News Staff

New Hubble Space Telescope observations of globular star clusters in a tiny galaxy called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) show these objects...

This image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 986. Image credit: NASA / ESA.

Hubble Space Telescope Zooms in on Spiral Galaxy NGC 986

Nov 25, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986. This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...

Abell 2744 takes on a ghostly look where total starlight has been artificially colored blue in this Hubble view. Image credit: NASA / ESA / IAC / HFF Team / STScI.

Hubble Captures ‘Ghost Light’ of Stars Ejected from Ancient Galaxies in Abell 2744

Oct 31, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to probe a galactic supercluster known as Abell 2744 have found forensic evidence of galaxies that were...

This natural-color picture was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA / ESA / A. Simon, Goddard Space Flight Center / C. Go / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA.

Spectacular New Hubble Image of Jupiter Reveals Giant ‘Eye’

Oct 29, 2014 by News Staff

In April 2014, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope obtained a remarkable new view of Jupiter as they tracked changes in the Great Red...

NASA’s Mars Fleet, Hubble Return Images of Comet Siding Spring

Oct 27, 2014 by News Staff

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, Mars Rover Opportunity and two Mars orbiters – the MAVEN and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter – have captured...

In this illustration the hot-Jupiter WASP-43b orbits its parent star in one of the closest orbits ever measured for an exoplanet of its size - with a year lasting about 19 hours. The color scale on the planet represents the temperature across its atmosphere. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Z. Levay, STScI.

Astronomers Create Weather Map of Exoplanet WASP-43b

Oct 11, 2014 by News Staff

An international group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a global weather map of a hot-Jupiter exoplanet called WASP-43b,...

This is an artist's impression of SN 1993J. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Hubble Helps Astronomers Solve Mystery of Supernova SN 1993J

Sep 11, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph and Wide-Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have finally discovered a companion...

H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836, an object seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii with the help of a gravitational lens. In this image one can see the foreground galaxy that is doing the lensing, which resembles how our Milky Way Galaxy would appear if seen edge-on; but around this galaxy there is an almost complete ring - the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond. Image credit: ESO / NASA / ESA / W. M. Keck Observatory.

Astronomers Spot Two Colliding Galaxies in Distant Universe

Aug 27, 2014 by News Staff

A multinational team of astronomers, led by Dr Hugo Messias of the Universidad de Concepción in Chile and the Universidade de Lisboa in Portugal, has...

This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 1309; the X-shaped feature at the top of the image of the galaxy marks the location of the supernova SN 2012Z; the inset panel from 2013 shows the supernova; archival Hubble data from 2005 and 2006 show the progenitor system for the supernova. Image credit: NASA / ESA / C. McCully and S. Jha, Rutgers University / R. Foley, University of Illinois / Z. Levay, STScI / Hubble Heritage Team / A. Riess, JHU / STScI.

Hubble Finds Progenitor to Rare Type Iax Supernova SN 2012Z

Aug 7, 2014 by News Staff

Archival photographs from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have been used to uncover the progenitor to the supernova SN 2012Z – the binary star system...

This image shows the galaxy cluster IRC 0218. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University / Kenneth Wong, Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Hubble Discovers Most Distant Gravitational Lens Yet

Aug 1, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the most distant...

This is an illustration of a hot Jupiter orbiting a Sun-like star.

Astronomers Discover Three Surprisingly Dry Jupiter-Like Exoplanets

Jul 25, 2014 by News Staff

A team of astronomers headed by Dr Nikku Madhusudhan of the Cambridge University’s Institute of Astronomy has found that the abundance of water vapor...

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