Hubble Space Telescope
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…
Holy Galaxify Batman! Galaxy Zoo Allows Users to Put Their Name in Big Lights
If you're going to put your name in lights, you might as well go big; REALLY big. And with millions…
Win a Hubble Photograph, Now Through September 16
We all hate to see the summer end (coming soon in the northern hemisphere) but before the September equinox arrives,…
Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Unveiled
A quick check of Hubble's gallery shows just 1,300 images; however more than raw 700,000 images reside in a vast…
Star Clusters on a Clandestine Collision Course
Astronomers originally thought that just one massive star cluster shone brightly in a huge star forming region of the Tarantula…
Inspiring Video: The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck
How many times a week do we use the word "awesome" here on Universe Today? While we haven't kept track,…