Tag: Astrophysics Division

  • Help Classify Galaxies Seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope!

    Help Classify Galaxies Seen by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope!

    NASA needs your help identifying the shapes of thousands of galaxies in images taken by our James Webb Space Telescope with the Galaxy Zoo project. These classifications will help scientists answer questions about how the shapes of galaxies have changed…

  • Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light

    Hubble Visits Glittering Cluster, Capturing Its Ultraviolet Light

    As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) shared new images that revisited stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. ESA/Hubble released new images of NGC…

  • Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit

    Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble’s 35th Year in Orbit

    In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 35 years in Earth orbit, NASA is releasing an assortment of compelling images recently taken by Hubble, stretching from the planet Mars to star-forming regions, and a neighboring galaxy. After more than three…

  • Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

    Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

    As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. New images of NGC…

  • Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

    Hubble Provides New View of Galactic Favorite

    As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. ESA/Hubble published a new…

  • NASA’s Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

    NASA’s Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

    Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown place of origin. Researchers say that this runaway magnetar is the likeliest candidate in our Milky Way galaxy for a…

  • Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song

    Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song

    The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very real. We are…

  • Hubble Helps Determine Uranus’ Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision

    Hubble Helps Determine Uranus’ Rotation Rate with Unprecedented Precision

    An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made new measurements of Uranus’ interior rotation rate with a novel technique, achieving a level of accuracy 1,000 times greater than previous estimates. By analyzing more than a…

  • Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation

    Hubble Studies a Nearby Galaxy’s Star Formation

    This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). Because this galaxy is nearby, cosmically speaking, Hubble’s keen instruments are able to…

  • Hubble Spots Stellar Sculptors in Nearby Galaxy

    Hubble Spots Stellar Sculptors in Nearby Galaxy

    As part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, the European Space Agency (ESA) is sharing a new image series revisiting stunning, previously released Hubble targets with the addition of the latest Hubble data and new processing techniques. This new image showcases…