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 intact. However, this dwarf galaxy paid a steep price, losing most of its own halo...
NASA revealed the difference in images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, the first of which were revealed Tuesday, and its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. In a tweet, the space agency posted images of Stephan’s Quintet, a cluster of five galaxies -- four of which interact....
and was captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The second image shows the Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared look at the galaxy using the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument). The final image shows visible light observed by theHubble Space Telescope’s Advanced...
NASA says there was a challenge in measuring the comet’s nucleus because it was too far away for the Hubble telescope to determine its size. Instead, scientists had to make a computer model that was adjusted to fit the images of the comet’s bright light that they got from the telescope...
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...
Photos: Hubble Space Telescope's Galaxy 'Zoo' Gallery Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, or Messier 83 (M83) NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team At about 55,500 light-years across, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy (called M83) is a bit more than half the size of our Milky Way, but it has a similar ...
And multimedia whizzes have begun digging into imagery from the observatory. First, a new videocompares views of the "Phantom Galaxy"from JWST and the Hubble Space Telescope. Then, experts havesonified the iconic Carina Nebulaphoto from the observatory's first science-quality images, turning it in...
Building blocks of life on Earth left the Milky Way before being pulled back in By Robert Lea published 11 hours ago You may be stuck in the Milky Way but new research suggests the carbon that makes up your body took an intergalactic round trip on a cosmic conveyer belt. The Universe...
the ASTHROS high-altitude balloon mission. ASTHROS will study stellar feedback in this region, the process by which stars influence the formation of more stars in their environment. Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley) et al., the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/...
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 ...