Hubble

Globular Clusters Sort their Stars

Globular clusters are regions of space where stars are densely packed together - 10,000 times more dense than our local…

18 years ago

Colliding Spiral Galaxies Captured by Hubble

This Hubble photograph shows two spiral galaxies colliding together. Known as the Antenna Galaxies, aka NGC 4038-4039, these two galaxies…

18 years ago

Hubbles Sees Galaxies Under Construction

The latest image released from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a beautiful view of a large galaxy being assembled from…

18 years ago

Hubble Examines the Closest Known Extrasolar Planet

The Hubble Space Telescope turned its gaze towards a relatively nearby Jupiter-sized world recently. The planet orbits the Sun-like star…

18 years ago

Hubble Finds Distant Extrasolar Planets

The Hubble Space Telescope has identified 16 stars that could have extrasolar planets. The discoveries were made as part of…

18 years ago

Hubble Sees the First Bright Galaxies

A new view from the Hubble Space Telescope shows some of the first bright galaxies to emerge in the Universe,…

18 years ago

Giant Planet or Failed Star?

The Hubble Space Telescope has helped astronomers uncover an object right at the dividing line between stars and planets. The…

18 years ago

Hubble Sees a Rare Transit on Uranus

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a very rare event: the transit of its moon Ariel across the surface of…

18 years ago

Hubble’s View of Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this photograph of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, one of the youngest remnants we know of…

18 years ago

Star Formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud

This photograph is of an active star formation region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky…

18 years ago