Hubble

A Galaxy’s Bulge Divulges Its Spin

[/caption] Although somewhat blobby and deformed, this is in fact a spiral galaxy, located in the southern constellation Hydra. Imaged…

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Hubble Gets Best Look Yet At Messier 9

[/caption] First discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster Messier 9 is a vast swarm of ancient stars…

13 years ago

Hubble Captures a Classic Barred Spiral Galaxy

[/caption] Is this what we look like? Astronomers don't know for sure exactly what the Milky Way looks like, but…

13 years ago

New Research Suggests Fomalhaut b May Not Be a Planet After All

[/caption] When the Hubble Space Telescope photographed the apparent exoplanet Fomalhaut b in 2008, it was regarded as the first…

13 years ago

Hubble Provides Evidence for ‘Double Degenerate Progenitor’ Supernova

[/caption] What happened 400 years ago to create this stunningly beautiful supernova remnant – and were there two culprits or…

13 years ago

Buried Treasure: Astronomers Find Exoplanets Hidden in Old Hubble Data

[/caption] Over the past 21 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has gathered boatloads of data, with the Hubble archive center…

13 years ago

Just for You: A Necklace from Hubble

[/caption] Awww, how nice of the Hubble Space Telescope, providing us all with a little cosmic bling in this great…

13 years ago

Hubble Telescope Spots Another Moon Around Pluto

[/caption] From a NASA press release: Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf…

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Hubble’s New Views of Neptune

[/caption] To celebrate the first complete orbit of the planet Neptue since its discovery in 1846, the Hubble Space Telescope…

13 years ago

Hubble: One in a Million

For those of you bummed that Hubble's one millionth observation didn't include an eye-popping image, Daniel Pendick from the Geeked…

13 years ago