Hubble Space Telescope

Jupiter (and its moon Europa to the upper left) captured by Hubble in visible light on 25 August 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), and M. H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL team
Hubble sees Jupiter erupt with storms big enough to swallow Earth
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What's the matter with dark matter? Observations show we're missing something.
Phil Plait
The galaxy cluster S1063 is a collection of hundreds of galaxies and is strewn with dark matter. This acts as a gravitational lens, distorting the light form more distant galaxies into arcs, which you can see throughout the center of this Hubble image.
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The Orion Nebula like you've never seen it before
Phil Plait
Aug 21, 2020
The mighty Orion Nebula, seen in near-infrared light so that astronomers could look for sub-stellar objects. Credit: NASA/ESA/Massimo Robberto/Judy Schmidt
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The *entire* sky glows from the light of distant hydrogen. All of it, everywhere.
Phil Plait
Aug 20, 2020
A section of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showing hundreds of galaxies, with the MUSE observations of hydrogen glow superposed (blue). The glow is everywhere, coming from hydrogen gas in the distant Universe. ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO/ Lutz Wisotzki et al.
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Smoking gun at Betelgeuse: Hubble shows it was belching dust that dimmed the red supergiant
Phil Plait
Aug 14, 2020
Dramatic artwork depicting a huge cloud of dark dust erupting from the southern hemisphere of Betelgeuse, obscuring it and causing The Great Dimming of late 2019. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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Astronomers use Hubble during an eclipse to detect life on Earth
Phil Plait
Aug 7, 2020
Artwork of Hubble observing the Moon during a total lunar eclipse. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
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Never-before-seen supernova super-explosion sent another star blazing through our galaxy
Elizabeth Rayne
Jul 18, 2020
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The beautiful spiral galaxy IC 342 and the mysterious huge bubble
Phil Plait
Jul 16, 2020
A close-up of the Hubble image of the galaxy IC 342 reveals a mysterious, round, red gas cloud (arrowed, and inset at 5X size). It’s unclear what it might be. NASA / ESA / Paul Sell / Judy Schmidt
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The spectacular ins and outs of starbirth
Phil Plait
Jul 14, 2020
Stars and gas seen by Hubble (red and yellow) together with long filaments of cold gas by ALMA (purple) start to show a complete picture of star formation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble.
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Hubble sees a star flapping its wings (video)
Phil Plait
Jun 26, 2020
The star EC 82 (right of center) casts two long shadows onto the nebulosity around it in this Hubble image of a young star-forming region. Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI
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Hubble sees the spectacular deaths of stars like the Sun
Phil Plait
Jun 19, 2020
The planetary nebulae NGC 6302 (left) and 7027 (right), dying stars casting off their outer layers, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)
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When were the *very* first stars born? Earlier than we can see, even with Hubble
Phil Plait
Jun 16, 2020
Artwork depicting the first stars in the Universe lighting up the gas clouds from which they were born. Credit: NAOJ
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NASA delays launch target for Hubble successor due to coronavirus slowdown
Benjamin Bullard
Jun 12, 2020
The center of the Milky Way as viewed from the Hubble telescope
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Hubble Space Telescope snaps ultra-clear image of 13-billion-year-old globular cluster
Jeff Spry
Jun 5, 2020
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Want to make planets? Stay away from monster stars.
Phil Plait
May 29, 2020
A Hubble of the huge star cluster Westerlund 2 reveals tens of thousands of stars, as well as gas and dust from which they form. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
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One ring (galaxy) to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
Phil Plait
May 26, 2020
Hoag’s Object is a perfect example of a ring galaxy, about 600 million light years away. Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Ray A. Lucas (STScI/AURA)
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