Hubble Space Telescope
Region in LMC Ablaze with Light and Color
Hubble view of star formation region N11 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble. Zoom by John…
Combining Light to Reveal Monster Black Holes
NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers…
Pink Galactic Smackdown Results in Cosmic Bulls-eye
Bright pink nebulae encircle spiral galaxy NGC 922 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA. Zoom:…
Stunning Gallery of Previously Unpublished Images from “Hubble’s Universe”
Distant star-forming region NGC 2467. Credit: NASA/ESA, Courtesy of "Hubble's Universe." The new book, Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest…
Now Even Further: Ancient Galaxy is Latest Candidate for Most Distant
It seems that every few months or so comes a new discovery of a new “most distant galaxy ever found.”…
Stirred, Not Shaken. Black Hole Antics Puff Up Whopper of a Galaxy
Its massive gravitational field warping space, the huge elliptical galaxy A2261-BCG, seems to have a diffuse halo of stars instead…
Ancient Quasar Shines Brightly, But All the Galaxy’s Stars Are Missing
Hubble Space Telescope image of J1148+5251. Credit: NASA/ESA/M. Mechtley, R. Windhorst, Arizona State University Quasars have been the best and…
Surprise! Galaxies Still Evolving in Present Universe
A giant spiral of gas dust and stars, Messier 101 spans 170,000 light-years and contains more than a trillion stars.…
Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Early Galaxy Found from the Cosmic ‘Dark Ages’
In the big image at left, the many galaxies of a massive cluster called MACS J1149+2223 dominate the scene. Gravitational…