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The Hubble Space Telescope has been taking an extended look at a spiral galaxy to help astronomers make improvements in measuring vast cosmic distances.NGC 7038 is an enormous, oval-shaped spiral galaxy with four blue spiral arms…

By ESA/Hubble August 15, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image showcasing the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. CohenThis scintillating image, which was captured by the <span…

By ESA/Hubble August 8, 2022Hubble Space Telescope captures the colorful region surrounding the Herbig-Haro object HH 505. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, Acknowledgment: M. H. ÖzsaraçThis vibrant celestial cloudscape from the…

Galaxies from the last 10 billion years witnessed in the 3D-DASH program, created using 3D-DASH/F160W and ACS-COSMOS/F814W imaging. Credit: Lamiya MowlaThere is a patch of the sky known as the COSMOS field, a region rich with galaxies,…

By ESA/Hubble June 6, 2022Hubble Space Telescope of globular cluster Ruprecht 106. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. DotterLike a gigantic version of Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the <span class="glossaryLink"…

One of the most powerful tools the world knows when it comes to measuring the interstellar is the Hubble Space Telescope. With over a billion pictures of weird and interesting phenomena happening around the universe within its grasp,…

Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the asteroids are previously known, more than 1,000 are not. What good are another 1,000 asteroids? Like all asteroids, they…

By ESA/Hubble May 15, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 6558. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. CohenThis glittering gathering of stars is the globular cluster NGC 6558, and it was captured by the <span…

By ESA/Hubble May 8, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image of an object known as DEM L249, the tattered remnant of a supernova. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. ChuThe tattered remnant of a supernova — a titanic explosion marking the end of…

This artist’s illustration shows supernova 2013ge, with its companion star at the lower right. The companion star is impacted by the blast wave from the supernova, but not destroyed. Over time astronomers observed the ultraviolet (UV)…