Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy

This Hubble image features the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer.

Hubble Captures Puzzling Galaxy

This Hubble image features the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer.

Hubble Jams With A Cosmic Guitar

This Hubble image features Arp 105, nicknamed The Guitar, is a dazzling ongoing merger between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy.

Hubble Rings In the New Year - NASA Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Hydra. The stars and galaxies depicted here span a mind-bending range of distances. The objects in this image that are nearest to us are stars within our own Milky Way galaxy. You can easily spot these stars by their diffraction […]

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Hubble Spies a Diminutive Galaxy - NASA Science

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the subtle glow of the galaxy named IC 3430, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This dwarf elliptical galaxy is part of the Virgo cluster, a rich collection of galaxies both large and small, many of which are very similar in type to this […]

Hubble Examines an Active Galaxy Near the Lion’s Heart - NASA Science

It might appear featureless and unexciting at first glance, but NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations of this elliptical galaxy — known as Messier 105 — show that the stars near the galaxy’s center are moving very rapidly. Astronomers have concluded that these stars are zooming around a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of […]

X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover' in a New Light - NASA

Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the Cloverleaf