open cluster NGC 290Open cluster NGC 290, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. Clusters smaller and less massive than the globular clusters are found in the plane of the Galaxy intermixed with the majority of the system’sstars, including theSun. These objects are the open clusters, so ca...
Galaxy, even though it was not yet known whether these correlations were applicable to other galaxies. As various types of galaxies were explored more completely, it became clear that the mix of populations in galaxies was correlated with Hubble type.Spiral galaxiessuch as the Milky Way Galaxy ...
"It's pretty amazing": First image of black hole at center of the Milky Way Three years after capturing the first image of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy 55 million light years away, astronomers have managed to "photograph" one closer to home. May 12, 2022 Hubble spots ...
And thanks to improvements in technology, some of the imagery here, including many photographs taken by members of the Idaho Astro Facebook Group, can give NASA's Hubble telescope a run for the money. Messier 81 Robert Van Vugt The spiral galaxy Messier 81, also known as Bode's Galaxy,...
The warp of Spiral Galaxy ESO 510-13 is similar to that of our own. Credit: NASA/Hubble 2. It Has a Halo, but You Can’t Directly See It: Scientists believe that 90% of our galaxy’s mass consists of dark matter, which gives it a mysterious halo. That means that all of the “...
Did you know the first person to figure out the size and shape of the Milky Way galaxy, Harlow Shapley, had nothing more than some pictures of stars in far-off star clusters? All we need is light from a star to figure out a lot about the star, including how far it is from us. ...
Telescope promising to capture pictures of universe with a degree of detail never before seen, we take a look back at some of the most breathtaking intergalactic images humanity has snapped, from early 18th century mysteries to more recent mind-blowing shots from the revolutionary Hubble Space ...
(Image credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser) Astrophysicists have discovered the fastest known star which is racing around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star, designated S4716, completes an orbit around the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) in just...
(Phys.org) —NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the first visual evidence of how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, assembled itself into the majestic pinwheel of stars we see today. Astronomers used Hubble's deep-sky surveys to study the evolution of 400galaxiessimilar to the Milky Wa...
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 across compared to a 100,000-light-year diameter for o...