Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) shows a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. At first glance, it resembles our Milky Way albeit larger, measuring more than 200,000 light-years ...
The galaxy, a faint smudge of starlight in the Hubble images, is tiny compared to the massive galaxies seen in the local universe. Our own Milky Way, for example, is more than 100 times larger. The researchers also described three other galaxies with redshifts greater than 8.3. The study...
Astronomers used these new infrared data to hunt for rogue planets—free-floating in space without a parent star—and brown dwarfs in the Orion Nebula. The infrared capabilities of Hubble also allow it to peer through the swirling clouds of dust and gas and make the stars hidden within clearly...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He profoundly changed our understanding of the universe by demonstrating the existence of other galaxies besides the Milky Way....
Large galaxy found lurking on the Milky Way's far side Adam Mann, Science, 2018 Nearby Galaxy Breaks the Black Hole Chain Charles Seife, Science, 2001 Portrait of a Galaxy Linda Rowan, Science, 2000 The local spiral structure of the Milky Way Ye Xu, Sci Adv, 2016 Astronomers spy ...
Many spiral galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole at their center. The presence of these black holes plays a significant role in the dynamics and evolution of the galaxies. image Credit: European Space Agency
These galaxies are much smaller than the Milky Way galaxy and have populations of stars that are intrinsically very blue. This may indicate the galaxies are so primordial that they are deficient in the heavier elements, and as a result, are quite free of the dust that reddens light through ...
'Cryptic terrain' and dark dust surrounds Mars' icy south pole, new photos reveal The Milky Way could be part of a much larger 'cosmic neighborhood' than we realized, challenging our understanding of the universe Latest Black holes from the universe's infancy could reveal invisible matter...
free-floating brown dwarfs and planets within the Orion nebula are all new discoveries. Many stars without water were also detected, and these are background stars in the Milky Way. Their light was reddened by passing through interstellar dust, and therefore not relevant to the team’s study....
Using this method, the team uncovered dark matter clumps along the telescope's line of sight to the quasars, as well as in and around the intervening lensing galaxies. The dark matter concentrations detected by Hubble are 1/10,000th to 1/100,000th times the mass of the Milky Way's dar...