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Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights

November 8, 2024

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along…
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Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds

October 30, 2024

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On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in a bumpy flight. Turbulence on a much larger scale is important to how stars form in giant molecular clouds that permeate the Milky Way. In a new NASA-funded study in the journal Science Advances, scientists…
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Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball

October 25, 2024

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The spiral galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is IC 3225. It looks remarkably as if it was launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming from its disk behind it. The scenes that galaxies appear in from Earth’s point of view are fascinating; many…
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Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90

October 18, 2024

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the striking spiral galaxy Messier 90 (M90, also NGC 4569), located in the constellation Virgo. In 2019, Hubble released an image of M90 created with Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) data taken in 1994, soon after its installation. That WFPC2 image has a distinctive stair-step pattern…
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NASA’s Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano

October 16, 2024

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided a dramatic and colorful close-up look at one of the most rambunctious stars in our galaxy, weaving a huge spiral pattern among the stars. Located approximately 700 light-years away, a binary star system called R Aquarii undergoes violent eruptions that blast out huge filaments of glowing gas. The twisted…
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Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC

October 15, 2024

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The study of X-ray emission from astronomical objects reveals secrets about the Universe at the largest and smallest spatial scales. Celestial X-rays are produced by black holes consuming nearby stars, emitted by the million-degree gas that traces the structure between galaxies, and can be used to predict whether stars may be able to host planets…
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Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts

October 11, 2024

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The sparkling scene depicted in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 5248, located 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Boötes. It is also known as Caldwell 45. The Caldwell catalog holds visually interesting celestial objects that are not as commonly observed by amateur astronomers as the more…
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NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus

October 9, 2024

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and New Horizons spacecraft simultaneously set their sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of the planet from two very different viewpoints. The results inform future plans to study like types of planets around other stars. Astronomers used Uranus as a proxy for similar planets beyond our…
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NASA’s Hubble Watches Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball

October 9, 2024

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Astronomers have observed Jupiter’s legendary Great Red Spot (GRS), an anticyclone large enough to swallow Earth, for at least 150 years. But there are always new surprises – especially when NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope takes a close-up look at it. Hubble’s new observations of the famous red storm, collected 90 days between December 2023 to…
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Hubble Observes a Peculiar Galaxy Shape

October 4, 2024

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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the galaxy, NGC 4694. Most galaxies fall into one of two basic types. Spiral galaxies are young and energetic, filled with the gas needed to form new stars and sporting spiral arms that host these hot, bright youths. Elliptical galaxies have a much more pedestrian look, and their…
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Category: Astrophysics Division

Hubble Captures a Galaxy with Many Lights

Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds

Hubble Sees a Celestial Cannonball

Hubble Captures a New View of Galaxy M90

NASA’s Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano

Revealing the Hidden Universe with Full-shell X-ray Optics at NASA MSFC

Hubble Spots a Grand Spiral of Starbursts

NASA’s Hubble, New Horizons Team Up for a Simultaneous Look at Uranus

NASA’s Hubble Watches Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Behave Like a Stress Ball

Hubble Observes a Peculiar Galaxy Shape

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