Hubble
This Star Has Reached the End of its Life
About 10,000 light years away, in the constellation Centaurus, is a planetary nebula called NGC 5307. A planetary nebula is…
The Earliest Example of Merging Galaxies Ever Found
Galaxy mergers are not particularly rare, but they are important events. Not only for the galaxies involved, but for scientists…
16 Years of Hubble Images Come Together in this one Picture Containing 265,000 Galaxies
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
This is What It’ll Look Like When the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies Collide Billions of Years from Now
What happens when two galaxies collide? The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course, and in…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 499: What is the proposed Hubble-Lemaitre Law?
We started out Astronomy Cast with the controversal decision to de-planet Pluto. And here we are, more than a decade…
How Fast is the Universe Expanding? Hubble and Gaia Team Up to Conduct the Most Accurate Measurements to Date
A new study used data from both Hubble and Gaia in order to obtain the most precise measurements of cosmic…
Neptune’s Huge Storm Is Shrinking Away In New Images From Hubble
Hubble images track the demise of an enormous storm in Neptune's atmosphere. Rather that expiring in a flash of atmospheric…
NASA Completes Critical Space Communications Network with Spectacular Launch of Final TDRS Science Relay Satellite
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – Today marked the end of an era for NASA as the last of the agency’s…
NASA Bombshell: Key Ingredient For Life Discovered On Enceladus
Discovery of hydrogen at Enceladus raises hopes that life may exist in the icy moon's oceans.
Hubble Sees Intense Auroras on Uranus
French astronomers discover the brightest auroras on Uranus ever seen, and they look ... weird.