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Hubble Snaps Images of a Pin
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Hubble Snaps Images of a Pinwheel-Shaped Galaxy |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. This dramatic spiral galaxy is one of the latest viewed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Stunning details of the face-on spiral galaxy, cataloged as NGC 1309, are captured in this color image. NGC 1309 was home to supernova SN 2002fk, whose light reached Earth in September 2002. NGC 1309 resides 100 million light-years (30 Megaparsecs) from Earth. It is one of about 200 galaxies that make up the Eridanus group of galaxies. |
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Hubble Confirms New Moons of
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Hubble Confirms New Moons of Pluto |
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Port
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Hubble's Largest Galaxy Portrait Offers a New High-Definition View |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Giant galaxies weren?t assembled in a day. Neither was this Hubble Space Telescope image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101). It is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy that has ever been released from Hubble. The galaxy?s portrait is actually composed of 51 individual exposures taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in March 1994, September 1994, June 1999, November 2002, and January 2003. The newly composed image also includes elements from images from ground-based photos. |
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Hubble Provides Spectacular
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Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup |
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Hubble Provides Spectacular
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Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup |
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Hubble Provides Spectacular
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Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup |
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Hubble Provides Spectacular
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Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup |
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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures o
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Hubble Snaps Baby Pictures of Jupiter's "Red Spot Jr. |
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Cassiopeia A - The Colorful
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Cassiopeia A - The Colorful Aftermath of a Violent Stellar Death |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. A new image taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the tattered remains of a supernova explosion known as Cassiopeia A (Cas A). It is the youngest known remnant from a supernova explosion in the Milky Way. The new Hubble image shows the complex and intricate structure of the star's shattered fragments. The image is a composite made from 18 separate images taken in December 2004 using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). |
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Extraterrestrial Fireworks
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Extraterrestrial Fireworks |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a cosmic explosion that is quite similar to fireworks on Earth. In the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, a massive star has exploded as a supernova, and begun to dissipate its interior into a spectacular display of colorful filaments. The greenish-blue supernova remnant, E0102, resides 50 light-years away from the edge of a bright glowing massive star-forming region. |
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Hubble Captures a Rare Eclip
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Hubble Captures a Rare Eclipse on Uranus |
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The Carina Nebula: Star Birt
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The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. READ: Junior version of this article Amazing Space Learn about this story in the Star Witness, a science newspaper available on our sister site, Amazing Space. [ http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/news/archive/2007/02/ ] It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth —, and death —, is taking place. This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of neutral hydrogen during March and July 2005. Color information was added with data taken in December 2001 and March 2003 at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission. |
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Hubble Images of Asteroids H
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Hubble Images of Asteroids Help Astronomers Prepare for Spacecraft Visit |
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Astronomers Find Highly Elli
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Astronomers Find Highly Elliptical Disk Around Young Star |
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Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' G
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Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy |
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Hubble Finds that "Blue Blob
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Hubble Finds that "Blue Blobs" in Space Are Orphaned Clusters of Stars |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. Hubble Space Telescope's powerful vision has resolved strange objects nicknamed "blue blobs" and found them to be brilliant blue clusters of stars born in the swirls and eddies of a galactic smashup 200 million years ago. Such "blue blobs"—, weighing tens of thousands of solar masses —, have never been seen in detail before in such sparse locations, say researchers. The "blue blobs" are found along a wispy bridge of gas strung among three colliding galaxies, M81, M82, and NGC 3077, residing about 12 million light-years away from Earth. This is not the place astronomers expect to find star clusters, because the gas filaments were considered too thin to accumulate enough material to actually build these many stars. The star clusters in this diffuse structure might have formed from gas collisions and subsequent turbulence, which enhanced locally the density of the gas streams. Galaxy collisions were much more frequent in the early universe, so "blue blobs" should have been common. After the stars burned out or exploded, the heavier elements forged in their nuclear furnaces would have been ejected to enrich intergalactic space. Read more: * The Full Story [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/02/full/ ] |
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Hubble Provides Spectacular
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Hubble Provides Spectacular Detail of a Comet's Breakup |
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Hubble's Latest Look at Plut
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Hubble's Latest Look at Pluto's Moons Supports a Common Birth |
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Planet Or Failed Star? NASA'
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Planet Or Failed Star? NASA's Hubble Telescope Photographs One of Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen |
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Planet Or Failed Star? NASA'
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Planet Or Failed Star? NASA's Hubble Telescope Photographs One of Smallest Stellar Companions Ever Seen |
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Hubble Sees Faintest Stars i
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Hubble Sees Faintest Stars in a Globular Cluster |
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Hubble Finds Evidence for Da
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Hubble Finds Evidence for Dark Energy in the Young Universe |
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Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' G
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Hubble Finds 'Dorian Gray' Galaxy |
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