Hubble images never fail to amaze.
“The discovery of this exceptional object has allowed us to accurately study the nature of the stars at the center of an elliptical galaxy in a remote era of the universe, when the galaxy was still young.”
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A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. IC 486 lies right on the edge of the constellation Gemini (the Twins), around 380 million light-years from Earth. Classified as a barred spiral galaxy, […]
NASA’s XRISM X-ray spacecraft has clocked 2 million mph winds ripping out of a distant galaxy bursting with star formation.
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Astronomers have spotted the most distant and brightest “space laser” ever seen, and it’s blasting from a galaxy collision that occurred when the universe was half its current age.
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For the first time, astronomers have directly measured the speed of superheated gas billowing from a cauldron of stellar activity at the heart of M82.
Astronomers captured a colorful new portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, revealing complex clouds of gas in between the galaxy’s 40 billion stars.
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What if the mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ aren’t baby black holes, but rather globular clusters in their messy, glorious formation?
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The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes caught a stunning portrait of a dying star at the heart of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.
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The Milky Way nebula RCW 36 resembles a stunning cosmic bird of prey in an incredible Very Large Telescope image.