Tag: Galaxy
Hubble captures a lonely light in the dark
A splatter of stars glows faintly at almost 3 million light-years away in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Known as the Tucana Dwar [...]
Hubble captures a bright spiral ‘in the Queen’s Hair’
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the jewel-bright spiral galaxy NGC 4689, which lies 54 million light-years from Earth in the constel [...]
Hubble catches a vast galactic neighborhood
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies:
The large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side [...]
Hubble sights a galaxy with ‘Forbidden’ light
This whirling image features a bright spiral galaxy known as MCG-01-24-014, which is located about 275 million light-years from Earth.
In addition [...]
Webb spotlights gravitational arcs in ‘El Gordo’
The Fishhook. The Thin One. These are just two of the striking targets revealed in new detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
Webb observed [...]
Hubble images a starstruck galaxy
The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar p [...]
Hubble Views a Beautiful Luminous Galaxy
The lenticular galaxy NGC 5283 is the subject of this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 5283 contains an active galactic nucleus, or A [...]
Hubble Hunts an Unusual Galaxy
The galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 steals the spotlight in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space telescope. The Arp-Madore catalog is a collect [...]
Hubble snaps a pair of interacting galaxies
The two interacting galaxies making up the pair known as Arp-Madore 608-333 seem to float side by side in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space T [...]