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Astronomy Jun 30, 2025

Image: Hubble captures an active galactic center

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of 250 million years. Its source was the spiral galaxy UGC 11397, which resides in the constellation ...

Planetary Sciences Jun 10, 2025

Moons of Uranus surprise scientists in Hubble study

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

Astronomy May 20, 2025

Hubble captures distant galaxy's light bent into a partial Einstein ring

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the galaxy was 5.5 billion light-years ...

Astronomy May 16, 2025

Hubble captures the Large Magellanic Cloud

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations ...

Astronomy May 15, 2025

Image: Hubble spies galaxy with rosy pink hue

The spiral galaxy known as Messier 81 (M81) has a rosy tint in this June 1, 2007, composite image that incorporates data from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, and NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Discovered by ...

Astronomy May 15, 2025

Image: Hubble pinpoints young stars in spiral galaxy

In this image, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 in the constellation Fornax, located more than 50 million light-years from Earth. Visible in this galaxy image is a bright blue ring ...

Astronomy May 12, 2025

Hubble comes face-to-face with spiral's arms

The spiral galaxy NGC 3596 is on display in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image that incorporates six different wavelengths of light. NGC 3596 is situated 90 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, ...

Other May 10, 2025

Saturday Citations: AI predicts cancer survival outcomes; Hubble spots a wandering black hole

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the possibility that a Science X alchemy vertical could be on the horizon. An international research collaborative ...

Astronomy May 8, 2025

Hubble pinpoints roaming massive black hole

Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million light-years away, within the inky black depths between stars, there is an invisible monster gulping down any ...

Astronomy May 5, 2025

Hubble images skewed spiral galaxy Arp 184

A beautiful but skewed spiral galaxy dazzles in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy, called Arp 184 or NGC 1961, sits about 190 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Camelopardalis (The ...

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