Hubble has joined forces with two amateur astronomers to capture a monster, and it may be one of the most beautiful four-armed giants ever seen. Read More >>
Featured comment by Spazturtle:
""like any other spiral, including our own Milky Way"
In keeping with me making annoying comments today I think I will point out that we are a Barre..." More »
It's called the Extreme Deep Field—or XDF for short. It took ten years of Hubble Space Telescope photographs to make it, and it's the most detailed, deepest picture of the Universe ever taken, showing some of the oldest galaxies ever observed by humans, 13.2 billion years back in time. Read More >>
With over one million observations since it launch on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been a endless source for insane wonders, unprecedented scenes and humbling experiences. However, many of its most amazing images have never been seen before by anyone—until now. In fact, some images actually show objects that nobody knew existed before. Read More >>
Like NASA says, these stars look like the thousand bright flashes of people taking photos just before a big rock concert. In reality, they are the oldest stars in our very own Milky Way, captured by Hubble. Read More >>
This is U Camelopardalis, a carbon star 1,500 light years away from Earth, in the constellation of the same name, near the North Celestial Pole. U Cam—as it is known—is at the end of its life, erupting layers of material from time to time: Read More >>
Featured comment by Ergates:
"1,500 light years? That's at least 3 orders of magnitude too small to be the nearest full galaxy, much less one far far away." More »
Check out this video made with images created by NASA. It shows Earth's night sky during the next four billion years, with the Milky Way on a head-on collision with Andromeda. The destruction of our galaxy as we know it will be so beautiful. Read More >>
It's always the same. Just when I'm thinking that I couldn't be surprised by the Hubble Space Telescope anymore, it captures another image that leaves me in awe. Like this searchlight-like beams in space. It's what I'd imagine the doors to heaven would look like if I believed in such things. Read More >>
This is one of the most impressive Hubble Space Telescope images I've ever seen. It shows a massive group of young stars called R136 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. But that's not what makes them so special: Read More >>
Featured comment by Jon D:
"Well by the time it happens, I hope someone has invented speakers powerful enough to play Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to the universe
:)" More »
This is the best, most detailed and clearest image of a dying star yet, according to NASA. Pause for a few seconds and really look at it. Imagine all that unstoppable fire in motion, like a real version of the Death Star explosion, but a gazillion times bigger. Read More >>
Astronomers have discovered the far, far away galaxies. The farthest galaxy cluster ever seen, in fact, a whooping 13.1 billion light-years away. According to the researchers, "these galaxies formed during the earliest stages of galaxy assembly, when galaxies had just started to cluster together." Read More >>
This is the fastest spinning star in the universe yet. Rotating at a mindblowing one million miles per hour, it's so fast that its shape is not a sphere anymore. They call it VFTS 102. Boring. I prefer Burger Star. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jynto:
""I like to think that plasma is made of mustard and cheddar cheese."
Ooh, me too. I like to imagine that the companion star was made of curly fries..." More »
This is MACS 1206, a galaxy cluster 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. The photo was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a new broad sky survey. Can you notice something weird? Yes, some of the galaxies are distorted. Read More >>
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