This image is of the galaxy Messier 61 (M61), showcasing its bright core encircled by spiral arms and dark dust filaments. The delicate, feathery nature of the spiral arms in the Hubble Space ...
This image of Caldwell 69 includes ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations taken in 2019 and 2020 by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The Butterfly Nebula is a stunning bipolar planetary ...
dynamic nebula. NASA, ESA, M. Stute, M. Karovska, D. de Martin & M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) “This outburst ejects powerful jets seen as filaments shooting out from the binary system, forming loops ...
Hubble and its fellow observatories give us an unprecedented, crystal-clear look at the far reaches of the cosmos. Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The ...
Cropped view of R Aquarii binary star system and nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. The venerable Hubble Space Telescope has seen some things, man. An eye-opening new Hubble image shows ...
As this Hubble image reveals, NGC 4694's dust forms chaotic structures that indicate some kind of disturbance. It turns out that the cloud of hydrogen gas around NGC 4694 forms a long bridge to a ...
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy IC 1954, located 45 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. It sports a glowing bar in its ...
Andromeda Galaxy: The nearest cosmic neighbor of our Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda is located about 2.5 million light-years away. Centaurus A: Also known as NGC 5128 or Caldwell 77, Centaurus A lies ...
The Ring Nebula: Messier 57, more commonly known as the Ring Nebula, is about 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra, and is best observed during August. It was discovered by French ...
creating massive shockwaves that extend over 62 billion miles (100 billion kilometres) into space. These shockwaves form the nebula's distinctive spider-leg-like arcs.