In a dramatic tale of survival captured by theHubble Space Telescope, one of our closest galactic neighbors, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has plunged through theMilky Way’s vast gaseous halo and emerged i
TL;DR:NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a 2.5 billion-pixel image of the Andromeda galaxy, our closest neighbor, set to collide with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning panoramic view of the Milky Way's closest...
The SPHEREx mission’s ability to scan large sections of the sky quickly and gather data on millions of objects complements the work of more targeted telescopes, like NASA’s Hubble and James Webb, and the observatory’s data will be freely available to scientists around the world, providing a...
The image used as the basis for the compositions is of the center of the Milky Way galaxy, a bustling region of gas filaments, X-rays, and a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. The image combines data from Chandra, Hubble, and Spritzer to bring together data from the X-ray, ...
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In one test image, XRISM's Resolve instrument — a microcalorimeter spectrometer — homed in on N123D, one of the brightest X-ray sources in theLarge Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of theMilky Waylocated some 160,000 light-years from Earth. The spectrum revealed silicon, sulfur, cal...
NASA's$25.4 billion budget request for 2025set aside $317 million to fund the Webb space telescope, as well as theHubble Space TelescopeandChandra X-ray Observatorythat together comprise NASA's currently operational "Great Observatories." The Hubble Telescope program is faci...
Spectacular jets powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A as imaged by Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico.NASA, ESA, S. Baum and...
NASA's Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. One image shows...
Taken after local midnight on April 17, the central Milky Way is rising over the region's southeast horizon. Its luminous track of stars and nebulae along the plane of our galaxy are reflected in the mirror-like lake. The brightest celestial beacon mingled with the diffuse galactic starlight ...