Hubble
New Hubble Images Reveal Plethora of Interacting Galaxies
59 new images from the Hubble Space Telescope show some very unusual but incredibly spectacular colliding galaxies. Colliding or interacting…
Hubble Finds Dozens of Gravitationally Lensed Galaxies
One of the breakthroughs in modern astronomy is the use of gravitational lenses, where a closer galaxy or star focuses…
Hubble Finds One of the Earliest, Brightest Galaxies in the Universe
By boosting the abilities of Hubble with a gravitational lens telescope provided by nature, astronomers have been able to peer…
Hubble Sees an Ancient Elliptical Galaxy
As galaxies come together through successive mergers they take on the splendid spiral shape like our own Milky Way. Keep…
Supercluster Ruled By the Pull of Dark Matter
Enough of this small stuff, let's look at the big picture. The really really big picture. In this case, one…
The Plan to Fix Hubble
Although the space shuttles have a busy schedule completing the construction of the International Space Station, there's one other job…
Hubble’s View of M74
During many holidays, the folks working on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope try and find an image that captures the essence…
Finally, Hubble’s View of Comet Holmes
All right, here's the picture we've all been waiting for. Step aside ground-based observatories, papa Hubble's here with images of…
Hubble Sees Beautiful Carnage
Ahh, another beautiful photograph captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This time we're looking at two big, beautiful spiral galaxies...…
Nearby Galaxy is Older Than it Looks
Look at the picture associated with this story. It just looks like a pretty galaxy, right? Well, according to astronomers,…