The Secret Lives of Galaxies Unveiled in Deep Survey
*Description*: The Chandra Deep Field-North image was made by observing an area of the sky over half the size of the full moon for 23 days. It is the most sensitive or "deepest" X-ray exposure ever made. By co... More
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Resolves a Dark "x" Across the Nucleus o...
*Description*: (four-frame comparison) Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the core of the giant spiral galaxy M51. These images, taken at different wavelengths of light, reveal complex struct... More
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images Pluto - the "Double Plane...
*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the clearest pictures ever of our solar system's most distant and enigmatic object: the planet Pluto. The observations were made with the European Spac... More
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 Object Description: Emission Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 44m Dec. -59° 53' Constella... More
Giant Radio Jet Coming from Wrong Kind of Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: 0313-192 Object Description: Radio Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 03h 15m 52.10s Dec. -19° 06' 44.00" Constellation: Eridanus Distance: 900... More
Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects
Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist... More
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Discovers Protoplanetary Disks Around Ne...
*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope "true color" mosaic image of a small portion of the Orion Nebula, taken the Wide Field and Planetary Camera (in wide field mode). Hubble shows a wealth of detail n... More
Hubble Fellowship Program Selects Talented Young Astronomers for Study...
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Hubble's Deepest View Ever of the Universe Unveils Earliest Galaxies
*Description*:> Interview segment with Sangeeta Malhotra, Astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Clip references what the team expects to discover with the Hubble Advanced Camera for Surveys gri... More
Firestorm of Star Birth Seen in a Local Galaxy
*Description*: This full mosaic WFPC2 image shows a slightly larger area around NGC 604. The scale of this image is 2.5 arcminutes along the bottom. Technical facts about this news release: About the Obj... More
Hubble Sees Gas Shell Around Nova Cygni 1992
*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HS1) image of a tepidly ballooning bubble of gas blasted off a star. The shell surrounds Nova Cygni 1992 which erupted on February 19, 1992. The shell is so young ... More
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images - Supernova 1987A
*Description*: The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close-up view of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Since they firs... More
Hubble Finds Ring of Dark Matter
*Description*: This rich galaxy cluster, catalogued as Cl 0024+17, is allowing astronomers to probe the distribution of dark matter in space. The blue streaks near the center of the image are the smeared image... More
Distant Heavyweight Galaxy Cluster Clobbers Dense-Universe Theory
*Description*: These images, taken by three different telescopes, show the distant, hefty galaxy cluster MS1054-0321, containing thousands of galaxies and trillions of stars. Weighing the equivalent of several... More
Hubble Reveals Details of a Newly Born Planetary Nebula
*Description*: This Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 image captures the infancy of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. In this image, the bright central star is in the middle... More
The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Carina Nebula, NGC 3372 Object Description: Emission Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 10h 44m Dec. -59° 53' Constella... More
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources
*Description*: NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope took ultraviolet and visible-light images of the Apollo 15 and 17 landing regions and the Aristarchus crater in Aug. 2005. Technical facts about this news rele... More
Hubble Catches Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula
*Description*: This image of the Boomerang Nebula was taken in 1998 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 instrument. Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott called it the Boomerang Nebula in 1980 after observing it w... More
STScI Preparing a Desktop Universe For Astronomers
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Galactic Black Hole with Optical Jet
*Description*: The energy source needed to create and maintain the galactic let in galaxy PKS 0521-36 is generated deep within the core of the galaxy, and is far too small to resolved. The favored mechanism be... More
NASA's Great Observatories May Unravel 400-Year Old Supernova Mystery
*Description*: Detailed knots and filamentary ribbons of glowing gas are apparent in this Hubble Space Telescope image of Kepler's supernova remnant. This image was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surv... More
Hubble Camera Resumes Science Operation with Picture of "Butterfly" in...
*Description*: The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is back at work, capturing this black-and-white image of the "butterfly wing"-shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about ... More
Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50'... More
Hubble Tracks Asteroid's Sky Trek
*Description*: This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a small galaxy called the Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy, or "SagDIG" for short. SagDIG is relatively nearby, and Hubble's sharp vision i... More
Hubble Space Telscope Deep-sky Survey Finds Interacting Galaxies in a ...
*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a previously unknown small group of galaxies estimated to be three billion light-years away.* They existed when the universe was only about 80% its present... More
The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Dee...
*Description*:> The Hubble Deep Field South penetrates deep into a very small patch of the sky near the southern constellation Tucana. The ZOOM represents the Hubble looking at the distant universe to uncover... More
Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo
*Description*: The deepest visible-light image ever taken of the sky resolves approximately 300,000 stars in the halo of the nearest neighboring spiral galaxy, Andromeda (M31). The photo was taken with the Adv... More
Hubble Space Telescope Carina Nebula
Stars Bursting to Life in Chaotic Carina Nebula These two images of a huge pillar of star birth demonstrate how observations taken in visible and in infrared light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal dramat... More
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images The Radio Galaxy PKS 0521...
*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has obtained the most detailed and highest resolution optical images of the radio galaxy PKS 0521-36. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Fa... More
Space Phenomenon Imitates Art in Universe's Version of van Gogh Painti...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50'... More
Panoramic Hubble Picture Surveys Star Birth, Proto-Planetary Systems i...
*Description*: This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, seamles... More
Observes the Lost Ancestors to Our Milky Way Galaxy
*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of the central portion of a remote cluster of galaxies (CL 0939+4713) as it looked when the universe was two-thirds of its present age. Hubble's high... More
Hubble Probes the Great Orion Nebula
*Description*: A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a region of the Great Nebula in Orion, as imaged by the Wale Field Planetary Camera 2. This is one of the nearest regions of very recent star formation (3... More
The Lure of the Rings. NASA public domain image colelction.
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: AM 0644-741, Lindsay-Shapley Ring Galaxy Object Description: Ring Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 6h 43m 16s.59 Dec. -74° 14' 22".23 Constel... More
Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions
*Description*: This Hubble Space Telescope image provides a detailed look at a brilliant "fireworks show" at the center of a collision between two galaxies. Hubble has uncovered over 1,000 bright, young star c... More
HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: High speed gas from a supernova explosion slams into dark cooler clouds of interstellar material. Shocked and heated by this tidal wave of energy, the clouds glow in bright, neon-like colors. (I... More
Hubble Finds Multiple Stellar 'Baby Booms' in a Globular Cluster
*Description*: A simplified version of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram of the original Hubble data, this graph schematically plots the brightness of the stars in globular cluster NGC 2808 (along the vertical a... More
Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger
*Description*: Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hambur... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Internal Heat Drives Jupiter's Giant Storm Eruption
*Description*: The background image is from Hubble Space Telescope and shows the turbulent pattern generated by the two plumes on May 11, 2007 (upper left part of Jupiter). The two bright plumes detach in the ... More
Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through...
*Description*:> This animation shows the sudden brightening of the star V838 Mon as it happened on Jan 2002. The star got much brighter because it expanded to a red super giant. In the foreground is a blue co... More
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources
*Description*: The Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys imaged Aristarchus crater and nearby Schroter's Valley rille on Aug. 21, 2005. The Hubble images reveal fine-scale details of the crater's ... More
Hubble Reveals Details of a Newly Born Planetary Nebula
*Description*: This Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 image captures the infancy of the Stingray nebula (Hen-1357), the youngest known planetary nebula. In this image, the bright central star is in the middle... More
Hubble Sees Star Cluster "Infant Mortality
*Description*: This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1313. Hubble was used to resolve stars within the galaxy to do a census of various classes of st... More
A Journey Through Space and Time
NASA set out on a monumental journey with the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990. Since then, it has captured the minds and imaginations of people around the world. To celebrate the telescope's ... More
Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
*Description*: This loose collection of stars is actually a dwarf irregular galaxy, called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of M81, a large spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. This image was taken with... More
Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
*Description*: Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some of the early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped c... More
Hubble Illuminates Cluster of Diverse Galaxies
*Description*: This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the diverse collection of galaxies in the cluster Abell S0740 that is over 450 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation ... More
Hubble's Close-Up View of a Shock Wave from a Stellar Explosion
*Description*: This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." Covering a region on the sky six times the diameter of the full Moon, the Cygnus Loop is actually the expanding blastwave f... More
Heavyweight Stars Light Up Nebula NGC 6357
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Pismis 24, NGC 6357, Cl Pismis 24 Object Description: Open Star Cluster and Emission Nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 25m 24s.00 Dec. -34... More
Hubble Finds Extrasolar Planets Far Across Galaxy
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: SWEEPS fields Object Description: Stellar Field Near the Galactic Bulge Position (J2000): R.A. 17h 59m 00s Dec. -29 ° 12' 00" Constellatio... More
Space Movie Reveals Shocking Secrets of the Crab Pulsar
*Description*:> This movie shows dynamic rings, wisps and jets of matter and antimatter around the pulsar in the Crab Nebula as observed in X-ray light by Chandra (left, blue) and optical light by Hubble (rig... More
The First Servicing Mission. NASA public domain image colelction.
Astronaut F. Story Musgrave during one of five spacewalks undertaken by the crew to repair the Hubble Space Telescope on the first servicing mission, STS-61, in 1993, which restored the observatory's flawed vis... More
Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Fireworks
*Description*: Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar e... More
Magnificent Details in a Dusty Spiral Galaxy
*Description*: In 1995, the majestic spiral galaxy NGC 4414 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the HST Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale. An international team of astronomers, le... More
Too Close for Comfort. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-ye... More
First ESA Faint Object Camera Science Images - Supernova 1987A
*Description*: The European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided a fascinating close-up view of Supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Since they firs... More
HST WC/PC First Light Image. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: On the right is part of the first image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Wide Field Planetary Camera. It is shown with a ground-based picture from Las Campanas, Chile, Observator... More
The Violent Lives of Galaxies: Caught in the Cosmic Dark Matter Web
*Description*: Astronomers assembled this photo by combining a visible-light image of the Abell 901/902 supercluster taken with the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope in La Silla, Chile, with a dark matter map derive... More
Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe
*Description*:> Camera move on ACS image of "The Mice." Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: UGC 10214 (Arp 188, "Tadpole Galaxy") Object Description: Peculiar Galaxy Po... More
Star Cluster Bursts into Life in New Hubble Image
*Description*: Full-field image of NGC 3603 using a single pointing of the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard Hubble. This image spans 19 light-years across. Technical facts about this news release: Abo... More
NASA's Hubble Finds Hundreds of Young Galaxies in Early Universe
*Description*: This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among ... More
Hubble Watches Galaxies Engage in Dance of Destruction
*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing a grouping of galaxies engaging in a slow dance of destruction that will last for billions of years. The galaxies are so tightly packed together that ... More
Bigger, Better Catalog Unveils Half a Billion Celestial Objects
Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: Rosette Nebula; NGC 2237 Object Description: Emission nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 06h 32.3m Dec. 05° 03' Constellation: Monoceros Dist... More
A Wheel within a Wheel. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: A nearly perfect ring of hot, blue stars pinwheels about the yellow nucleus of an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object. This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of ... More
A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula
*Description*: This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and C... More
Hubble Shoots the Moon. NASA public domain image colelction.
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Very Long Baseline Array Reveals Formation Region of Giant Cosmic Jet ...
*[top left] - *:This radio image of the galaxy M87, taken with the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in February 1989, shows giant bubble-like structures where radio emission is thought to be powered by th... More
Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn ...
*Description*: The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made... More
Hubble Space Telescope Finds a Double Nucleus in the Andromeda Galaxy
*Description*: [Right] - HST View of Galactic Nucleus A NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a "double nucleus" in the giant spiral galaxy in Andromeda, M31. Each of the two light-peaks contains a few... More
Giant "Twisters" and Star Wisps in the Lagoon Nebula
*Description*: This NASA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image reveals a pair of one-half light-year long interstellar "twisters" ? eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures (upper left) ? in the heart of the Lag... More
Hubble Catches Scattered Light from the Boomerang Nebula
*Description*: This image of the Boomerang Nebula was taken in 1998 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 instrument. Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott called it the Boomerang Nebula in 1980 after observing it w... More
Hubble Watches Uranus. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: Using visible light, astronomers for the first time this century have detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus. The newest images, taken July 31 and Aug. 1, 1997 with NASA Hubble Spa... More
Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy
*Description*: Looking like a child's pinwheel ready to be set a spinning by a gentle breeze, this dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the f... More
Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50'... More
Spitzer and Hubble Team Up to Find "Big Baby" Galaxies in the Newborn ...
*Description*: The galaxy, named HUDF-JD2, was pinpointed among approximately 10,000 others in a small area of sky called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF). This is the deepest image of the universe ever made... More
Hubble Identifies Stellar Companion to Distant Planet
*Description*: [bottom left text] Hubble Space telescope observed and identified the host star to a gravitationally lensed planet first discovered in 2003 by ground-based telescopes. [left box] A foreground r... More
Hubble Space Telescope Orion Nebula
This magnificent image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet, and visible-light colors. It was 'painted' by hundreds of baby stars on a ... More
Astronomers Ponder Lack of Planets in Globular Cluster
Technical facts about this news release: About this Object Object Name: 47 Tucanae, NGC 104 Object Description: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 24m 06.21s Dec. -72° 05' 00.5" Constellation: Tucana ... More
A Really Neat Close-up of Comet NEAT from Kitt Peak Observatory
*Description*: This image of comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) was taken at the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Ariz., on May 7, 2004. The image was captured with the Mosaic I cam... More
New Clues About the Nature of Dark Energy: Einstein May Have Been Righ...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Data Data Description: The datasets used for these results are from the HST programs: 9425 and 9583: Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) 9352: ... More
Space Telescope Science Institute Prepares a "Desktop Universe" For As...
*Description*: These three pictures show a section of the digitized all sky-survey at different compression factors. The images will be written into CDROM (Compact Disk Read-Only Memory) format and will be ava... More
Supernova Remnant Menagerie. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: Chandra's image of N63A shows material heated to about ten million degrees Celsius by a shock wave generated by the supernova explosion. The fluffy crescent-shaped X-ray features that appear aro... More
World's Most Powerful Telescopes Team Up With a Lens in Nature to Disc...
*Description*: [LEFT] A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster CL1358+62 has uncovered a gravitationally-lensed image of a more distant galaxy located far beyond the cluster. The gravitational... More
Hubble Watches Light from Mysterious Erupting Star Reverberate Through...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like object Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 05s Dec. ?03° 50' 50" Constellation: Monoceros Distan... More
Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars
*Description*: This loose collection of stars is actually a dwarf irregular galaxy, called Holmberg IX. It resides just off the outer edge of M81, a large spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. This image was taken with... More
The Universe "Down Under" is the Latest Target for Hubble's Latest Dee...
*Description*: Several thousand never-before-seen spiral, elliptical and colliding galaxies snap into view in this Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image. Technical facts about this news relea... More
Hubble's New Camera Delivers Breathtaking Views of the Universe
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: UGC 10214 (Arp 188, "Tadpole Galaxy") Object Description: Peculiar Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 16h 06m 03.89s Dec. +55° 25' 30.9" Conste... More
Astronomers Find One of the Youngest and Brightest Galaxies in the Ear...
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Abell 1689 Object Description: Galaxy Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 13h11m 34s.20 Dec. -01° 21' 56".0 Constellation: Virgo Distance: The ... More
Hubble Unveils a Galaxy in Living Color
*Description*: The NASA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped this wide view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512. A wispy bar of material can barely be seen slicing vertica... More
HST's Greatest Hits 1990-1995. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: An immense wall of glowing gasses forms a colorful backdrop to dozens of newborn stars, many of which have dust disks ? as revealed by Hubble ? that might be embryonic solar systems. (Image Rele... More
Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: V838 Monocerotis Object Description: Nova-like variable star and surrounding light echo Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 04m 04.8s Dec. ?03° 50'... More
Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Extragalactical Stellar Nursery
*Description*: Computer processing of the HST image sharpens the appearance of the cluster by subtracting stellar halos introduced by spherical aberration in the HST optics. Technical facts about this new... More
Saturn's North Polar Hood. NASA public domain image colelction.
*Description*: This enlargment of the Saturn image reveals unprecedented detail in atmospheric features at the northern polar hood. Saturn's north pole is presently tilted toward Earth by 24 degrees. Tech... More
New Hubble Image Reveals Details in the Heart of the Trifid Nebula
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Trifid Nebula, M20, NGC 6514 Object Description: Emission Nebula; HII Region Position (J2000): R.A. 18h 02m 23s.00 Dec. -23° 01' 48".0 Con... More
Hubble Finds Thousands of Gaseous Fragments Surrounding a Dying Star
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: Helix Nebula Position (J2000): R.A. 22h 29m 30s Dec. -20d 50m 10s Constellation: Aquarius Distance: 450 Light Years Age 10,000 years *Ne... More
Hubble Space Telescope Celestial Composition
*Description*:> Here we see a "movie" of 12 consecutive epochs of a long period (~50 days) Cepheid variable. The Cepheid is in the center of a crowded region of stars. The resolution of HST is required to pic... More
Hubble Uncovers Oldest "Clocks" in Space to Read Age of Universe
Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: M4 (NGC 6121) Object Description: Globular Cluster Position (J2000): R.A. 16h 23m 35.4s Dec. -26° 31' 31.9" Constellation: Scorpius Distan... More
Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger
*Description*: Hold the pickles; hold the lettuce. Space is serving up giant hamburgers. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a photograph of a strange object that bears an uncanny resemblance to a hambur... More
Hubble Panoramic View of Orion Nebula Reveals Thousands of Stars
*Description*: Location of details cropped from the full HST/ACS Orion Nebula image (yellow rectangles). The blue outline shows the border of the mosaic produced from individual ACS/WFC fields. Technical ... More