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On the left is Pisces A, 19 million light-years away. On the right we can see Pisces B, which is around 30 million light-years way. Credit: NASA, ESA, and E. Tollerud (STScI)

Two dwarf-galaxies have left the wilderness to join a galactic party

by Tibi Puiu

August 12, 2016

Drawn by gravity, a dwarf galaxy pair is leaving the void for a more crowded region of the universe.

Universe at your fingertips – 3D prints of Hubble photos let the blind ‘see’

by Tibi Puiu

January 9, 2014

NGC 609 is one of the many small galactic star clusters located in the Milky Way ...

Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and the HFF Team

Hubble goes farther than ever before: images reveal deepest view of the Universe yet

by Tibi Puiu

January 8, 2014

Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and ...

Hubble space telescope images of the space body taken on 10 September (left) and 23 September 2013 (right). These show P/2013 P5 with six tails, which surround it like the spokes of a cartwheel. While most of the tails became less bright between the observations, tail F significantly increased in brightness. © NASA / HST

Rapidly rotating asteroid blazes with six tails trailing

by Tibi Puiu

November 14, 2013

This oddball cosmic body, called P/2013 P5, has puzzled astronomers for a while. By mass and orbit, it can only ...

These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new observing program called The Frontier Fields. NASA's Great Observatories are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. The foreground clusters range in distance from 3 billion to 5 billion light-years from Earth. (c) NASA/ESA

NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe

by Tibi Puiu

October 29, 2013

These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part ...

This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a radius of just 80 light years. (c) NASA/CXC/MSU/J.Strader et al, Optical: NASA/STScI

The stars of the densest galaxy discovered thus far are 25 times closer than in Milky Way

by Tibi Puiu

September 25, 2013

This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a ...

Not too long ago, the Ring nebula was thought to be shaped like a sphere. New Hubble observations, coupled with ground imaging, show that the nebula is actually shaped like a bagel. In the image, the deep blue color in the center represents helium; the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen; and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. (c) NASA

“Ring Nebula” imaged in stunning never before seen 3-D detail

by Tibi Puiu

May 27, 2013

Not too long ago, the Ring nebula was thought to be shaped like a sphere. New ...

Extremely rare double Einstein ring imaged by Hubble

by Tibi Puiu

May 15, 2013

(c) NASA/ESA Hubble just never ceases to surprise. The latest astronomical find discovered using the ever ...

Farthest supernova discovered by Hubble helps unravel Universe secrets

by Tibi Puiu

April 5, 2013

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come across the farthest supernova of its type found thus far - a type Ia ...

“Eye of Sauron” star hosts rogue planet

by Tibi Puiu

January 9, 2013

Back in 2008, Hubble released a stunning image of a very bright star called Fomalhaut which spanned a huge disk of ...

Amazing high energy, relativistic plasma jets coming out of the Hercules A Galaxy

by Dragos Mitrica

December 16, 2012

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... at about 2 billion light years away from Earth lies ...

Hubble stares into the dawn of the Universe – sets another record for oldest galaxy

by Mihai Andrei

December 13, 2012

Using the evergreen Hubble telescope, astronomers from NASA have been able to uncover a previously unseen population of ancient galaxies, ...

The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a composite taken with Hubble's WFC 3 and ACS. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Postman and D. Coe (STScI) and CLASH Team.

Farthest known object in the Universe is 13.3 billion years old

by Tibi Puiu

November 20, 2012

The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a ...

Hubble takes brilliant picture of young star population in elderly company

by Mihai Andrei

November 6, 2012

The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center ...

Artist's rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy - 11 billion years old. The red area in the upper right corner is a dwarf galaxy that is merging with it. (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics/Joe Bergeron)

Oldest spiral galaxy is a freak of cosmos

by Tibi Puiu

July 18, 2012

Artist's rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy - 11 billion years old. The red area ...

Colour composite image of the Subaru XMM-Newton deep survey field. In the right panel, the red galaxy at the centre of the image is the most distant galaxy, SXDF-NB1006-2, according to the astronomers. Image by NAOJ

Oldest galaxy discovered so far in the Universe is 12.91 billion years old

by Tibi Puiu

June 12, 2012

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The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying Servicing Mission 4 (STS-125), the fifth and final human spaceflight to visit the observatory.

Two military spy telescopes, just as big and powerful as Hubble, donated to NASA

by Tibi Puiu

June 5, 2012

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