About 130 million light-years away in the constellation Draco, the galaxy NGC 3147 resides.
Its winding, graceful spiral arms contain pinkish nebulae, young blue stars, and dust in silhouette.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) and M. Chiaberge (ESA, STScI, and JHU)
Its winding, graceful spiral arms contain pinkish nebulae, young blue stars, and dust in silhouette.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, S. Bianchi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy) and M. Chiaberge (ESA, STScI, and JHU)
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Time for a galactic quest to NGC 1300!
This majestic spiral galaxy is nearly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It contains pink clouds of star formation, blue clusters of young stars, and dark lanes of dust.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Music credit: "Digital Dreamscape," Count Zero [PRS], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Universal Production Music
This majestic spiral galaxy is nearly 70 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It contains pink clouds of star formation, blue clusters of young stars, and dark lanes of dust.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)
Music credit: "Digital Dreamscape," Count Zero [PRS], Atmosphere Music Ltd. [PRS], Universal Production Music
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What better way to wrap up the first week of Galaxies Galore than with a new Hubble image?
Soak in this view of the giant elliptical galaxy UGC 10143, the brightest galaxy in a cluster full of them.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and W. Harris (McMaster University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
Soak in this view of the giant elliptical galaxy UGC 10143, the brightest galaxy in a cluster full of them.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and W. Harris (McMaster University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
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Galactic pals!
This close-knit group of five galaxies is known as Hickson Compact Group 40. You might recognize them from Hubble’s 32nd anniversary image, celebrated last month!
The group contains three spiral galaxies, along with an elliptical galaxy and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.
Visualization credits: Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan
Music credit: “Shine,” Max Cameron Concors, Hyperscore Productions, Universal Production Music
This close-knit group of five galaxies is known as Hickson Compact Group 40. You might recognize them from Hubble’s 32nd anniversary image, celebrated last month!
The group contains three spiral galaxies, along with an elliptical galaxy and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy.
Visualization credits: Joseph DePasquale, Alyssa Pagan
Music credit: “Shine,” Max Cameron Concors, Hyperscore Productions, Universal Production Music
Now presenting, our first new Galaxies Galore Hubble image!
Nicknamed the Needle’s Eye Galaxy, NGC 247 is a spectacular dwarf spiral galaxy about 11 million light-years away from us.
This image zooms into the very edge of the galaxy. Below the edge of the galaxy’s disk, smaller and more distant galaxies are visible, as well as a very bright foreground star that lies between us and NGC 247.
Nicknamed the Needle’s Eye Galaxy, NGC 247 is a spectacular dwarf spiral galaxy about 11 million light-years away from us.
This image zooms into the very edge of the galaxy. Below the edge of the galaxy’s disk, smaller and more distant galaxies are visible, as well as a very bright foreground star that lies between us and NGC 247.
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Hubble’s going galactic! 💫
Starting Monday, join us for #GalaxiesGalore! For the next few weeks, we’ll share never-before-seen Hubble galaxy images and explore the science behind these cosmic neighborhoods.
Starting Monday, join us for #GalaxiesGalore! For the next few weeks, we’ll share never-before-seen Hubble galaxy images and explore the science behind these cosmic neighborhoods.
Double take! 🤩
This image of M99 features data from two sets of observations made to study two entirely different astronomical phenomena.
The first set of observations aimed to explore a gap between two different varieties of cosmic explosions, novae and supernovae, whereas the second set was part of a larger Hubble project to map the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas from which they form.
Roughly 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices, M99 is known as a “grand design” spiral galaxy because of its well-defined and prominent spiral arms.
This image of M99 features data from two sets of observations made to study two entirely different astronomical phenomena.
The first set of observations aimed to explore a gap between two different varieties of cosmic explosions, novae and supernovae, whereas the second set was part of a larger Hubble project to map the connections between young stars and the clouds of cold gas from which they form.
Roughly 42 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices, M99 is known as a “grand design” spiral galaxy because of its well-defined and prominent spiral arms.
Did you know that the black hole at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy has a leak?
This supermassive black hole, with a mass of 4.1 million Suns, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years.
While Hubble hasn't photographed the jet, it has helped find evidence that it is still pushing feebly into a huge hydrogen cloud and then splattering, like the narrow stream from a hose aimed into a pile of sand.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and Gerald Cecil (UNC-Chapel Hill); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
This supermassive black hole, with a mass of 4.1 million Suns, looks like it still has the remnants of a blowtorch-like jet dating back several thousand years.
While Hubble hasn't photographed the jet, it has helped find evidence that it is still pushing feebly into a huge hydrogen cloud and then splattering, like the narrow stream from a hose aimed into a pile of sand.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and Gerald Cecil (UNC-Chapel Hill); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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In this new sonification of the black hole in galaxy M87, three different sets of observations are represented as sound.
Hubble’s visible light image is in the middle, with X-rays from nasa chandra xray on top and radio waves from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array on the bottom.
The bright region on the left is where M87’s black hole is found, and the streak coming out of it is a jet produced by material falling onto the black hole.
Each wavelength of light is represented with a different range of audible tones. Radio waves are mapped to the lowest tones, Hubble’s data to medium tones, and X-rays detected by Chandra to the highest tones.
Hubble’s visible light image is in the middle, with X-rays from nasa chandra xray on top and radio waves from the Atacama Large Millimeter Array on the bottom.
The bright region on the left is where M87’s black hole is found, and the streak coming out of it is a jet produced by material falling onto the black hole.
Each wavelength of light is represented with a different range of audible tones. Radio waves are mapped to the lowest tones, Hubble’s data to medium tones, and X-rays detected by Chandra to the highest tones.
This cosmic "lightsaber" is actually a Herbig-Haro object named HH111.
A Herbig-Haro object forms when hot gas ejected by a newborn star collides with gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per second: https://go.nasa.gov/3vI8eTG
A Herbig-Haro object forms when hot gas ejected by a newborn star collides with gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per second: https://go.nasa.gov/3vI8eTG
Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe – tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. But evidence from Hubble shows a black hole in a new light: fostering, rather than suppressing, star formation.
Hubble observations of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright starbirth region, kind of like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars.
The outflow was moving at about 1 million miles per hour, slamming into the dense gas like a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out. Newborn star clusters dot the path of the outflow's spread, their ages also calculated by Hubble.
Hubble observations of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright starbirth region, kind of like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars.
The outflow was moving at about 1 million miles per hour, slamming into the dense gas like a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out. Newborn star clusters dot the path of the outflow's spread, their ages also calculated by Hubble.
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Black holes are often described as the monsters of the universe – tearing apart stars, consuming anything that comes too close, and holding light captive. But evidence from Hubble shows a black hole in a new light: fostering, rather than suppressing, star formation.
Hubble observations of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright starbirth region, kind of like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars.
The outflow was moving at about 1 million miles per hour, slamming into the dense gas like a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out. Newborn star clusters dot the path of the outflow's spread, their ages also calculated by Hubble.
Hubble observations of the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10 clearly show a gas outflow stretching from the black hole to a bright starbirth region, kind of like an umbilical cord, triggering the already dense cloud into forming clusters of stars.
The outflow was moving at about 1 million miles per hour, slamming into the dense gas like a garden hose hitting a pile of dirt and spreading out. Newborn star clusters dot the path of the outflow's spread, their ages also calculated by Hubble.
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The ultra-diffuse galaxy GAMA 526784 shines in this week’s HubbleFriday! Residing in the constellation Hydra, this wispy object is located roughly four billion light-years from Earth.
Ultra-diffuse galaxies have a plethora of peculiarities. They can have either very low or high amounts of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe. These galaxies also contain an abundance of bright globular star clusters, something not observed in other types of galaxies.
Hubble captured GAMA 526784’s with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which was installed in 2002 by astronauts during Hubble's Servicing Mission 3B. Since then, the instrument has played a pivotal role in some of Hubble’s most impressive scientific results, including capturing the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
Ultra-diffuse galaxies have a plethora of peculiarities. They can have either very low or high amounts of dark matter, the invisible substance thought to make up the majority of matter in the universe. These galaxies also contain an abundance of bright globular star clusters, something not observed in other types of galaxies.
Hubble captured GAMA 526784’s with the Advanced Camera for Surveys, which was installed in 2002 by astronauts during Hubble's Servicing Mission 3B. Since then, the instrument has played a pivotal role in some of Hubble’s most impressive scientific results, including capturing the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.
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About 160,000 years ago, a star exploded. 🌟
It left behind these spectacular remains, imaged here in multiple wavelengths by Hubble and other observatories.
Once NASAWebb starts science operations, it will observe the iconic remnants of Supernova 1987A, too! With its powerful infrared vision, Webb will study SN1987A’s dust to find out more about its its composition, temperature, and density.
It left behind these spectacular remains, imaged here in multiple wavelengths by Hubble and other observatories.
Once NASAWebb starts science operations, it will observe the iconic remnants of Supernova 1987A, too! With its powerful infrared vision, Webb will study SN1987A’s dust to find out more about its its composition, temperature, and density.