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Hubble Captures Starry Spectacle – NASA Science

A galaxy ablaze with younger stars is the topic of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture. Named NGC 685, this galaxy is located about 64 million light-years away within the constellation Eridanus (the River). NGC 685 is a...

NASA’s IXPE Obtains First X-ray Polarization Measurement of Magnetar Outburst

What occurs when the universe’s most magnetic object shines with the ability of 1000 Suns in a matter of seconds? Due to NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), a mission in collaboration with ASI (Italian House Company), scientists...

Hubble Filters a Barred Spiral

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture incorporates a luminous tangle of stars and mud referred to as the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, situated about 30 million light-years away. Hubble launched an earlier image of NGC 1385, however...

Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision

Way back to 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy -- then thought to be only a nebula -- was headed our means. A century later, astronomers utilizing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope had been capable of measure the...

Hubble Spies Paired Pinwheel on Its Personal

A single member of a galaxy pair takes centerstage on this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture. This lovely spiral galaxy is NGC 3507, which is located about 46 million light-years away within the constellation Leo (the Lion). NGC...

Hubble Spies a Spiral So Inclined

The stately and inclined spiral galaxy NGC 3511 is the topic of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture. The galaxy is positioned 43 million light-years away within the constellation Crater (The Cup). From Hubble’s vantage level in orbit...

Hubble Pictures Galaxies Close to and Far

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture affords us the possibility to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (however showing because it did round 11 billion years in the past, when the galaxy was...

Hubble Captures Cotton Sweet Clouds

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture incorporates a glowing cloudscape from one of many Milky Means’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy known as the Massive Magellanic Cloud. Positioned 160,000 light-years away within the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the...

Hubble Pinpoints Younger Stars in Spiral Galaxy

On this picture, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope friends into the spiral galaxy NGC 1317 within the constellation Fornax, positioned greater than 50 million light-years from Earth. Seen on this galaxy picture is a vivid blue ring that...

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