The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the collision of two distant galaxies in the VV-689 system, producing what have been dubbed “angel wings,” RT reports. The collision occurred in the constellation Leo, and the cosmic wings were formed when the two gravitationally bound bodies collided and merged, deforming each other. “Unlike the squash lineup of … Read more
An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy M91, a narrow spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma pyreneesis. It is relatively close to us, 55 million light-years away, and is part of our Local Supercluster. M stands for Messier in his name, after the French astronomer Charles Messier who was famous for cataloging the … Read more
This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the dramatic and energetic jets spewed by a young star, forming a weak structure called the Herbig-Haro object. The image shows HH34, which is located 1,250 light-years away in the Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula is a site of active star formation and because it is … Read more
homeland: NASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and since then it has been swimming in space and taking thousands of pictures of the universe every day. For more than 30 years, the US space agency has chosen one of the images captured by Hubble within the Astronomical Image Day website, which was supervised … Read more
The NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a group of three unique galaxies, known collectively as NGC 7764A. Yesterday, the Russia Today website said that the three galaxies are referred to individually as NGC 7764A1, NGC 7764A2 and NGC 7764A3. Hubble, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and … Read more
After the James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its massive sunscreen earlier this month, followed shortly afterwards with its gold primary mirror, the most advanced space telescope ever was quietly zipping through space toward an orbit nearly a million miles from Earth. After its launch on December 25, the James Webb Space Telescope was 865,000 … Read more