Hubble Space Observatory

An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered a galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood that is missing most — if not all — of its dark matter. This discovery of the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 challenges ...

Two galaxies surrounding our Milky Way are playing a game of gravitational tug-of-war, and new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the cosmic winner. The two players are the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and its more massive sibling, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Not only ...

Astronomer Jennifer Wiseman grew up in Arkansas, on her family's farm in the Ozark Mountains. At night she would gaze at stars stretching “from horizon to horizon”, and she developed a deep curiosity about the universe. While studying physics at MIT, Jennifer discovered a comet, which is now named for ...

NASA has just added a set of spectacular new images to its catalog of deep-sky objects named after the French astronomer Charles Messier (1730-1817). Messier's main line of work was identifying new comets. However, he was limited by the small telescopes available to him, often coming across faint ...

The stunning photo is actually composite of three pictures snapped by three different space observatories – the Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer Space Telescopes. The Hubble telescope contributed to the composite by capturing the deep purple hues visible in the image. The vibrant pinks were captured by ...

Located 350 million light-years away, two neighbor galaxies are slowly being brought together by gravitational forces. The Hubble Space Telescope captured the pair's beautiful cosmic dance in a recent photo of the spiral galaxies, known as Arp 256. One of the most stunning aspects of the image are the ...

Two merging spiral galaxies are caught twisting each other into cosmic knots in a spectacular photo by the Hubble Space Telescope. The colliding galaxies comprise a system known as Arp 256, which lies about 350 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cetus (the Whale). "The galaxies are ...

A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 256, a stunning system of two barred spiral galaxies in an early stage of merging. This spectacular image of Arp 256 is a composite of separate exposures acquired by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the ...