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Quasar3C273
Space

The closest-ever look at a Quasar

Amit Malewar

A new gateway into understanding quasars.

galaxy NGC 4951
Space

Hubble captures a galaxy with a voracious Black Hole

Amit Malewar

The galaxy NGC 4951 is a fascinating example of a Seyfert galaxy.

Asteroid photobombs Hubble snapshot of Galaxy UGC 12158
Space

Astronomers discover 1031 Uncatalogued Asteroids

Editorial Team

The team used the help of "citizen scientists" worldwide, who contributed to identifying this asteroid bounty. Professional scientists then combined the volunteers’ efforts with...

Brown dwarf (artist’s concept)
Space

Hubble reveals the Drifting Binary Pairs of Ageing Brown Dwarfs

Editorial Team

A new study using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found that brown dwarfs, interstellar objects that are larger than Jupiter but smaller than...

NGC 5427
Space

NGC 5427: Hubble observes a Galactic distortion

Amit Malewar

It’s part of the galaxy pair Arp 271.

Exoplanet GJ 9827d (artist’s concept)
Space

Hubble Telescope detects water vapour in the atmosphere of smallest exoplanet GJ 9827d

Amit Malewar

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have made a groundbreaking discovery in their search for exoplanets. For the first time, they have detected...

Star system Beta Pictoris (MIRI image)
Space

New discovery in Beta Pictoris System reveals unseen structure

Amit Malewar

Scientists have made a new discovery in the Beta Pictoris planetary system, located just 63 light-years away. This system has been studied for decades...

Hubble photographs home of farthest fast radio burst (annotated)
Space

A weird FRB erupted halfway across the Universe

Editorial Team

A Fast Radio Burst (FRB) is a fleeting blast of energy that can – for a few milliseconds – outshine an entire galaxy. Over...

MCG-01-24-014
Space

Hubble sees a galaxy with forbidden light

Amit Malewar

It has an active galactic nucleus.

Hubble orbiting more than 300 miles
Space

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back online

Amit Malewar

The spacecraft is in good health.

image shows the distribution of matter in space
Space

A new possible explanation for the Hubble tension

Amit Malewar

A solution to one of the great mysteries of cosmology.

LTT 1445Ac
Space

Hubble measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet

Amit Malewar

This alignment, called a transit, opens the door to follow-on studies.

Artist’s concept of exoplanet LTT 1445ac
Space

Hubble measures the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet

Editorial Team

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a neighbouring star. This...

Galaxy cluster MACS0416
Space

Webb and Hubble united to create the most colorful view of the universe

Amit Malewar

The result: a vivid landscape of galaxies along with more than a dozen newly found time-varying objects.

Messier 104
Space

Hubble captured stunning image of the Sombrero galaxy

Amit Malewar

It owes its name to its resemblance to the Mexican hat of the same name.

Exoplanet K2-18 b (illustration)
Space

Methane, Carbon Dioxide in K2-18 b’s Atmosphere: A Discovery by JWST

European Southern Observatory

A new investigation by an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope into K2-18 b, an exoplanet 8.6...

NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope
Space

A galaxy in a ghostly haze

Amit Malewar

It possess a large disk but lack the prominent spiral arms of galaxies.

red dwarf star AU Microscopii
Space

Evaporating planet getting the hiccups, sees Hubble

Amit Malewar

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit.

Hubble Photographs Boulders Flung Off Asteroid Dimorphos
Space

Hubble sees what is happening to the asteroid Dimorphos in the aftermath of NASA’s DART experiment

Amit Malewar

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos.

the inner region of a planet-forming disk
Space

Most detailed known images of the inner region of a planet-forming disk

Amit Malewar

Resembling dusty infrared donuts.

Galaxy with Tendrils
Space

A galaxy with tendrils

Amit Malewar

The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans.

HUbble image and 3d model of M87
Space

Hubble and Keck’s observatory saw a giant galaxy in 3D

Amit Malewar

A huge city of Myriad stars turns out to be potato-shaped.

UGCA 307
Space

Hubble sees a diminutive dwarf galaxy without a defined structure

Amit Malewar

It resembles nothing more than a hazy patch of passing cloud.

Jupiter is positioned on the left. It is banded in stripes of brownish orange, light gray, soft yellow, and shades of cream. Uranus is positioned on the right. It appears tipped on its side and is mainly coloured cyan.
Space

Hubble monitors changing weather and seasons on Jupiter and Uranus

Editorial Team

Ever since its launch in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been an interplanetary weather observer, keeping an eye on the ever-changing atmospheres...

Hubble captures DART asteroid impact debris (clean)
Space

Hubble captured movie of DART smashing into an asteroid

Editorial Team

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a...

50,000 sources of near-infrared light
Space

NASA’s Webb new images of Pandora’s Cluster show a stronger, wider, better lens

Amit Malewar

The new view of Pandora’s Cluster stitches four Webb snapshots together into one panoramic image.

the gravity of a foreground white dwarf star
Space

Hubble, for the first time, directly measured the mass of a lone white dwarf

Amit Malewar

The unique observation yields insights into theories of the structure and composition of white dwarfs.

how a black hole can devour a bypassing star
Space

Hubble recorded a star’s final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole

Amit Malewar

Hubble finds a Hungry black hole twisting captured star into a donut shape.

Small Magellanic Cloud
Space

Hubble captures a small portion of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Amit Malewar

Hubble captures a glittering neighbor.

Emission Nebula-Star Cluster
Space

Hubble detects Emission nebula- Star cluster duo

Amit Malewar

NGC 1858 is estimated to be around 10 million years old.

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