Hubble Space TelescopeA new analysis of about 10,000 normal Sun-like stars in the Milky Way's galactic bulge reveals that our galaxy's hub...The Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537.This is an image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.Galaxy cluster ACT-CLJ0102-4915, or “El Gordo” contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns.The Hubble Space Telescope captured what looks like a colorful holiday ornament in space. It's actually an image of NGC...This Hubble image shows what happens when two galaxies become one. The twisted cosmic knot seen here is NGC 2623...Despite its diminutive size, dwarf galaxy NGC 178 is busy forming new stars.Dwarf galaxy NGC 5949 sits at a distance of around 44 million light-years from us, placing it within the Milky...Galaxy C 5559, discovered by William Herschel in 1785, lies 240 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Boötes.MCG+01-38-005 (below) is a special kind of megamaser; the galaxy’s active galactic nucleus pumps out huge amounts of energy, stimulating...The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been on the forefront of research into the lives of stars like our sun....Galaxy NGC 6753, imaged here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a whirl of colorThis NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows NGC 5398, a barred spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away.Gravity governs the movements of the cosmos. It draws flocks of galaxies together to form small groups and more massive...In the center of a rich cluster of galaxies located in the direction of the constellation of Coma Berenices, lies...The Large Magellanic Cloud is home to one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation known...ESO 553-46 has one of the highest rates of star formation of the 1,000 or so galaxies nearest to the...NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy arms swirling out from...Tucked away in the small northern constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs) is the galaxy NGC 4242.Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of...The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1+0307, a galaxy in the...Although IC 342 is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s disk, thick with glowing cosmic...Arp 299 is a system located about 140 million light years from Earth. It contains two galaxies that are merging,...Starburst galaxies contain regions where stars are forming at such a breakneck rate that the galaxy is eating up its...This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for...This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars visible in the...Not all galaxies have the luxury of possessing a simple moniker or quirky nickname.The star of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a galaxy known as NGC 4656, located in the constellation...Hubble reveals a few of the tenuous threads comprising Sh2-308, a faint and wispy shell of gas located 5,200 light-years...UGC 12591's classification straddles somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral galaxy. It lies just under 400 million light-years from...This galaxy acts as an astronomical laser, beaming out microwave emission rather than visible light.The Calabash Nebula, pictured here is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun.The Andromeda constellation is one of the 88 modern constellations and should not be confused with our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.The super star cluster Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, hosts one of the largest...Technically, this picture is merely a sidekick of the actual object of interest — but space is bursting with activity,...Temperature changes in the cosmic microwave background coincide with Hubble's image of top-ranked galactic cluster.This galaxy is showing warpage from the gravitational influence of a massive collection of more than 1300 galaxies called the...Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the...Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo...This Hubble image shows NGC 4789A, a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices.
