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This Hubble shows NGC 1309, a spiral galaxy some 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus. The color image is made up of observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and in the ultraviolet, infrared, and optical parts of the spectrum. Four 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 / L. Galbany / S. Jha / K. Noll / A. Riess.

Hubble Snaps Beautiful Image of NGC 1309

Jul 28, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a stunning new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 1309. This Hubble shows...

Color images of NGC 1309 both before and after SN 2012Z. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / McCully et al., doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3bbd.

Hubble Finds Half-Exploded Star in NGC 1309

Jun 24, 2022 by News Staff

There are different types of supernova explosions. Type Ia supernovae, also known as thermonuclear supernovae, occur in binary star systems. To trigger...

(a) WISE false color image of the Pa 30 nebula where blue and green stand for 11 μm emission, and red for 22 μm; (b) in this false color image, where green stands for WISE 11 μm (as in the left panel) and red for WISE 22 μm (adjusted to show extended emission), the emission from the central star is highlighted in blue from the GALEX near-UV data, while the XMM-Newton contors show that the majority of the X-ray emission originates from the core of the nebula; a background point source is seen westward of the CS in the XMM-Newton contour map; (c) the 2.1 m KPNO image; the green cross in the center of the image marks the location of the CS; panels (a)-(c) are reproduced at the same angular scale and orientation; at the Gaia distance of Pa 30 of 2,300 parsecs, an angular scale of 45'' translates to about 100,000 AU. Image credit: Ritter et al., doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ac2253.

Astronomers Identify Remnant of Historical Supernova SN 1181

Sep 20, 2021 by News Staff

New research led by University of Hong Kong astronomers shows that a fast expanding nebula called Pa 30 surrounding the hot Wolf-Rayet star IRAS 00500+6713...

This composite image contains data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue) and the NSF’s Very Large Array (red) of Sgr A East. This object is located very close to the supermassive black hole in the Milky Way’s center, and likely overruns the disk of material surrounding the black hole. Image credit: NASA / CXC / Nanjing University / Zhou et al. / NSF / NRAO / VLA.

Chandra Finds Rare Supernova Remnant in Milky Way’s Center

Feb 9, 2021 by News Staff

Sagittarius A East (Sgr A East), a supernova remnant located strikingly close to the central supermassive black hole of our Milky Way Galaxy, resulted...