The latest news about astronomy and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/ New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer th... Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0812.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0812.html Using the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer onboard of the Hubble NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made observations of young, surprisingly compact galaxies, each onl... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0811.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0811.html Fifty nine new images of colliding galaxies make up the largest collection of Hubble images ever released together. As this astonishing Hubble atlas of interacting galaxies illustrates, galaxy collisi... Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0810.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0810.html Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behin... Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0809.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0809.html The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the late stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, di... Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:30:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0808.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0808.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. This breakthrough is an important step in eventually i... Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0807.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0807.html Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have compiled a large catalogue of gravitational lenses in the distant Universe. The catalogue contains a staggering 67 new gravitationally lensed... Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0806.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0806.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with a boost from a natural “zoom lens”, has found the strongest evidence so far for a galaxy with a redshift significantly above 7. It is likely to be one of the ... Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0805.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0805.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil – the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of c... Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0804.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0804.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring patter... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0803.html Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to dissect one of the largest structures in the Universe as part of a quest to understand the violent lives of galaxies. Hubble is providing i... Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0802.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0802.html Hubble has revealed that mysterious "blue blobs" in a structure called Arp’s Loop between M81 and M82 are blue clusters of stars less than 200 million years old with many stars as young as, and even y... Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0801.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0801.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers a fascinating new insight into the atmosphere of a planet in orbit around another star. The observations provide evidence of the presence of h... Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0720.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0720.html Hubble has sent back an early Christmas card with this new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 74. It is an enchanting reminder of the impending season. Resemblin... Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0719.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0719.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has probed the bright core of Comet 17P/Holmes which, to the delight of sky watchers, mysteriously brightened by nearly a million-fold in a 24-hour period beginning... Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0718.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0718.html Two galaxies perform an intricate dance in this new Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxies, containing a vast number of stars, swing past each other in a graceful performance choreographed by grav... Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0717.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0717.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found out the true nature of a dwarf galaxy that astronomers had for a long time identified as one of the youngest galaxies in the Universe. Astronomers using t... Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0716.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0716.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular image of NGC 3603, a giant nebula hosting one of the most prominent massive young clusters in the Milky Way, thus supplying a prime templ... Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0715.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0715.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant Universe. Bla... Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0714.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0714.html Imagine cruising the heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a mouse click away today th... Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0713.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0713.html The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed three magnificent sections of the Veil Nebula - the shattered remains of a supernova that exploded some 5-10,000 years ago. The new Hubble images p... Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0712.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0712.html Nearly 12.5 million light-years away in the dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 a veritable stellar "fireworks" is on display - here shown in exquisite detail through the eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope. Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0711.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0711.html The sharpest image ever taken of the large "grand design" spiral galaxy Messier 81 is being released today. The image, constructed from a series of images taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, i... Mon, 28 May 2007 21:30:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0710.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0710.html An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a ghostly ring of dark matter that was formed long ago during a titanic collision between two massive gala... Tue, 15 May 2007 19:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0709.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0709.html Analysis of Hubble observations of the massive globular cluster NGC 2808 provides evidence that it has three generations of stars that formed early in the cluster's life. This is a major upset for con... Wed, 02 May 2007 15:00:00 +0200 http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0708.html http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0708.html