Hubble captures peculiar portrait of ‘cosmic keyhole’

Hubble captures peculiar portrait of ‘cosmic keyhole’

The star of this interesting image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 1999, a reflection nebula around 1,350 light-years away in the constellation Orion. The reflection nebula is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The image was created using archival observations from 1999. […]

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Hubble telescope captures spectacular image of spiral galaxy

Hubble telescope captures spectacular image of spiral galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this spectacular image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1961 featuring glittering blue regions of young, bright stars dotting the landscape of the galaxy’s dusty spiral arms. NGC 1961 is located about 180 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy and as an […]

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Stunning image of supernova remnant gives clues about star’s death

Stunning image of supernova remnant gives clues about star’s death

Astronomers studying the remains of a supernova captured using NASA telescopes have found clues that can help determine the timeline of the star’s demise. Called SNR 0519-69.0, the supernova remnant is the debris from an explosion of a white dwarf star. According to NASA’s Chandra Ray Observatory, the star underwent a thermonuclear explosion after reaching […]

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Hubble captures remarkable images of two spiral galaxies ‘overlapping’

Hubble captures remarkable images of two spiral galaxies ‘overlapping’

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of two spiral galaxies seemingly overlapping in the sky. SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, the two galaxies in the image, lie more than a billion light-years away from our planet. Even though it looks like both the galaxies are colliding in the image, the two galaxies […]

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Hubble telescope captures star-studded image of globular cluster

Hubble telescope captures star-studded image of globular cluster

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this glittering image of the globular cluster NGC 6540 in the Sagittarius constellation. The image was taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. This is a composite image of an area of the sky that encompasses both instruments’ different fields of view. Globular clusters […]

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