NASA’s Hubble hunts for intermediate-sized black hole close to home
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the ...
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Playing shadow puppets with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope
Scientists' Hubble Space Telescope observations of the young star, TW Hydrae may signal new planets under construction. Credit: ARTWORK: NASA, ...
Hubble follows shadow play around planet-forming disk
The young star TW Hydrae is playing "shadow puppets" with scientists observing it with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, AURA/STScI ...
Giant Galaxy Seen in 3D by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Keck Observatory
Though we live in a vast three-dimensional universe, celestial objects seen through a telescope look flat because everything is so ...
Hubble sees possible runaway black hole creating a trail of stars
There's an invisible monster on the loose, barreling through intergalactic space so fast that if it were in our solar ...
Hubble unexpectedly finds double quasar in distant universe
The early universe was a rambunctious place where galaxies often bumped into each other and even merged together. Using NASA's Hubble ...
Hubble finds Saturn’s rings heating its atmosphere
The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer ...
Hubble captures movie of DART asteroid impact debris
Like a sports photographer at an auto-racing event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos ...
Hubble captures the start of a new spoke season at Saturn
New images of Saturn from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope herald the start of the planet's "spoke season" surrounding its equinox, when enigmatic ...
For the first time Hubble directly measures mass of a lone white dwarf
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time directly measured the mass of a single, isolated white dwarf – the ...
Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape
Black holes are gatherers, not hunters. They lie in wait until a hapless star wanders by. When the star gets ...
Hubble captures 3 faces of evolving supernova in early universe
Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The ...
Webb, Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact
Two of NASA’s Great Observatories, the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured views of a ...
Hubble sees red supergiant star Betelgeuse slowly recovering after blowing its top
Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright red supergiant star ...
Hubble sees supergiant Betelgeuse slowly recovering after blowing its top
Cambridge, Mass. – Analyzing data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories, astronomers have concluded that the bright ...
Hubble sheds light on origins of supermassive black holes
Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial "missing link" between ...
Hubble probes extreme weather on ultra-hot Jupiters
In studying a unique class of ultra-hot exoplanets, NASA Hubble Space Telescope astronomers may be in the mood for dancing ...
Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, at a record distance of 28 billion lightyears
With a fortuitous lineup of a massive cluster of galaxies, astronomers from among other institutes the University of Copenhagen and ...
Hubble observes a not-so-close encounter
Credit: Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Boeker, B. Holwerda, Dark Energy Survey, Department of Energy, Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera (DECam), ...
Galaxy collision creates ‘space triangle’ in new Hubble image
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from ...