Hubble Space Telescope

Astronomers Spot a Mysterious Dark Patch on Neptune's Surface

The dark spot, measuring around 10,000 kilometers in diameter, had puzzled scientists since its discovery by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. However, new data collected by the VLT suggests a fresh understanding of its composition and origin.

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Hubble Captures a Star Blasting a Planet's Atmosphere Away

This remarkable event, unfolding in the system known as AU Microscopii, located just 32 light-years away, showcases the interplay between a planet and its parent star in a truly extreme setting.

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Hubble Space Telescope Reveals a Rare Intermediate-Sized Black Hole

The data collected by Hubble rule out alternative explanations for the object, such as a compact central cluster of stellar remnants like neutron stars, or smaller black holes orbiting each other.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Aftermath of NASA's DART Asteroid Impact

The newly released movie begins roughly 1.3 hours before the DART impact, then shows the system of two asteroids two hours after the event, with debris moving at speeds fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the asteroid system.

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Hubble Space Telescope Spots a Rare View of 3 Galaxies About to Collide

This colliding trio, collectively known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189, is a relatively rare combination of three large star-forming galaxies only 50,000 light-years apart. According to scientists, this is an extremely small distance on a cosmic scale.

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Hubble Telescope Finds a Black Hole Twisting a Star into a Doughnut as It Swallows It

Scientists say that a star is only torn apart in this way a few times every 100 thousand years in a galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. These stellar killings are called "tidal disruption events."

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Hubble Captured a Supernova Just Hours After the Explosion

In the images, astronomers have seen the early phases of a supernova at different stages. The three images of this supernova show a faint blue spot of a growing flare that is getting brighter and redder.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Celestial Fireworks Left by a Star's Death

The image shows intertwined strands of blue and orange that are the remnants of the supernova DEM L 190. The structure is located in the Milky Way's companion galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, and hides a rapidly spinning neutron star.

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Hubble Space Telescope Shared a New Festive Season Photo

The image shows a small region of the Westerhout 5 nebula, which is 7,000 light years away from Earth. The luminous image hosts a variety of interesting features, including a free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule (frEGG).

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Astronomers Discovered Two Exoplanets That May Be Mostly Water

Scientists hope the planets orbiting the red dwarf Kepler-138 won't be the last of its kind to be discovered. As instruments and detection techniques improve, more aquatic worlds like Kepler-138c and Kepler-138d are likely to be discovered.

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Hubble Captured a Star-Studded Cosmic Cloud

NGC 6530 is a cluster of several thousand stars embedded within the Lagoon Nebula – a gigantic interstellar cloud of gas and dust. It is the nebula that gives this image its distinctive smoky appearance.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Two Spiral Galaxies

NASA unveiled a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope that shows two bright star-forming galaxies. The two galaxies are known as Arp 303. However, each galaxy has its individual name – IC 563 and IC 564.

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Amateur Scientists Discovered More Than 1,000 New Asteroids

For the project, 11,482 citizen science volunteers have processed thousands of images taken by different cameras of the Hubble telescope from 2002 to 2021.

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Hubble Celebrated Its Birthday With an Image of the Hickson Compact Group 40

In the course of their journey through the universe, their paths crossed, and they are now are falling together in a gravitational dance until they inevitably merge.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures the Galactic Angel Wing

NASA shared an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, which shows a deep space object VV689, a system nicknamed the Angel Wing. It can be found in the night sky in the constellation Leo.

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Hubble Discovers a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe

Until now, the galaxy called GNz7q has been hiding unnoticed in one of the most studied areas of the night sky – the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field.

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Hubble Determines the Size of the Largest Icy Comet Nucleus

Comet C/2014 UN271 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein while analyzing images taken as part of the DES (Dark Energy Survey) from 2013 to 2019.

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Hubble Took a Picture of a Forming Jupiter-Like Protoplanet

The newborn planet orbits the protostar AB Aurigae. The planet is a gas giant whose mass is nine times that of Jupiter. The exoplanet orbits at a distance of 8.6 billion miles from its parent star.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Images of a Spiral Galaxy

It is believed that about a half of spiral galaxies (including our Milky Way) have a similar structure. The spiral arms of NGC 5921 stretch out of the bar, studded densely with clusters of young stars.

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Astronomers Discover the Farthest Star From Earth

The star is so far away that its light took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, and it is now seen as it was when the universe was about 900 million years old, a mere 7% of its current age.