NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are examining a pair of spooky-looking galaxies millions of light-years away.
Data collected by Hubble has also revealed a live Type I supernova called SN 2017GAX, which can be seen tucked just below the crook of one of the galaxy’s two prominent spiral arms, near the bottom ...
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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spiral galaxy under the "ram pressure" inside a massive cluster of galaxies.
The galaxies, IC 2163 on the left and NGC 2207, are about 114 light-years away from Earth, located in the Eridanus and Canis ...
A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...
Stare deeply at these galaxies. They appear as if blood is pumping through the top of a flesh-free face. The long, ghastly ...
This pair of galaxies is currently in the process of colliding and merging into one, a process that will take around a billion years.
In the 1997 movie "Contact," adapted from Carl Sagan's 1985 novel, the lead character scientist Ellie Arroway (played by ...
According to NASA, which recently shared this Hubble Space Telescope image, IC 3225 looks like it's been launched from a cannon, speeding through space like a comet with a tail of gas streaming ...
Astronomers combined images from the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope to create the highest-resolution image of two galaxies, IC 2163 on left and NGC 2207, on the verge of ...
Levay (STScI) Hubble and the Hooker 100-inch Telescope Hubble arrived at Mount Wilson in the fall of 1919, just as the Hooker 100-inch telescope was coming online. His timing couldn’t have been ...