NASA Hubble Content-For Informational Purposes. This mosaic was assembled in 2018 from dozens of images taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover. In the image, you’re looking uphill at Mount Sharp, which is in the middle of Gale Crater on Mars. The scene has been white-balanced so the colors of the rock… Continue reading 00-Gale Crater on Mars. Colors of the rock materials resemble how they would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope show that Neptune's clouds are almost completely disappearing! Astronomers report that their continual monitoring of Neptune’s weather uncovered a link between its shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, where the Sun’s activity waxes and wanes under the driving force of its entangled magnetic field. At present,… Continue reading 39-Neptune’s Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle

Until the 20th century, astronomers learned virtually all they knew about sources in the sky from only the tiny fraction of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the eye. However, as astronomers have discovered how to collect radiation outside this part of the spectrum, they have been able to learn much more about the universe.… Continue reading 40-Multiwavelength Astronomy: The Big Picture

A young planet whirling around a petulant red dwarf star is changing in unpredictable ways orbit-by-orbit. It is so close to its parent star that it experiences a consistent, torrential blast of energy, which evaporates its hydrogen atmosphere – causing it to puff off the planet. But during one orbit observed with the Hubble Space… Continue reading 41-Hubble Sees Evaporating Planet Getting The Hiccups

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking image of Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae was the site of a giant outburst about 150 years ago, when it became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. Though the star released as much visible… Continue reading 42-Hubble’s Inside The Image: Eta Carinae

Astronomers, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of “intermediate-sized” black hole that may be lurking in the heart of the closest globular star cluster to Earth, located 6,000 light-years away. Like intense gravitational potholes in… Continue reading 43-Hubble Hunts for Intermediate-Sized Black Hole Close to Home

This data sonification of the star V838 Monocerotis, or V838 Mon, shows two Hubble images taken almost seven months apart. A pulse of light from the central star illuminates clouds of dust and gas surrounding V838 Mon. This star is located about 20,000 light-years away, at the outer edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. In… Continue reading 44-Sonification of V838 Monocerotis Light Echo

The Pillars of Creation - NASA The Hubble Space Telescope celebrated its 33rd year in orbit by premiering a stunning new Hubble image of a nearby star-forming region named NGC 1333. Even after all these years, Hubble continues to uncover the mysteries of the universe. These are a few science achievements from Hubble’s latest year… Continue reading 45-Hubble’s 33rd Year in Orbit

To capture this image, Hubble peered through a veil of dust on the edge of a giant cloud of cold molecular hydrogen – the raw material for fabricating new stars and planets under the relentless pull of gravity. The image underscores the fact that star formation is a messy process in our rambunctious universe. NASA… Continue reading 46-Hubble’s 33rd Anniversary: Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star Birth

Hubble Sees Possible Runaway Black Hole Creating a Trail of Stars - NASA Science There’s an invisible monster on the loose! It’s barreling through intergalactic space fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes. But don’t worry, luckily this beast is very, very far away! This potential supermassive black hole, weighing… Continue reading 47-Hubble Catches Possible Runaway Black Hole

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has followed up on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope of the farthest star ever detected in the very distant universe, within the first billion years after the big bang. The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking image… Continue reading 48-Hubble’s Inside The Image: Earendel

Sally Ride became the first American woman to travel to space on June 18, 1983. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has an impressive group of women who have worked and continue to work on the historic mission. From Astronauts and engineers to IT and ground testers, Hubble continues its important mission thanks to some truly amazing… Continue reading 49-NASA Women Making History

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking Crab Nebula. With an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and located 6,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus, the Crab Nebula can be spotted with a small telescope and is best observed in January. The nebula… Continue reading 51-Hubble’s Inside The Image: Crab Nebula

An Einstein Ring can be explained by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, which causes light shining from a faraway galaxy to be warped by the gravity of an object between its source and the observer. This effect was first theorized by Albert Einstein in 1912, and later worked into his theory of general relativity. In… Continue reading 52-Einstein Rings: Optical Illusions

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has an impressive group of women who have worked and continue to work on the historic mission. From Astronauts and engineers to IT and ground testers, Hubble continues its important mission thanks to some truly amazing women. One of these inspiring women is Hubble Integration and Test Team Manager Colleen Townsley.… Continue reading 53-Hubble Women Making History: Colleen Townsley

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking image sequence of V838 Monocerotis (V838 Mon). Called a light echo, the expanding illumination of interstellar dust around the star has been revealing remarkable structures in the dusty cloud ever since the star suddenly brightened in… Continue reading 54-Hubble’s Inside The Image: V838 Mon

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has an impressive group of women who have worked and continue to work on the historic mission. From astronauts and engineers to IT and ground testers, Hubble continues its important mission thanks to some truly amazing women. One of these inspiring women is Hubble Electrical Power Systems Engineer Madison Brodnax. Madison… Continue reading 55-Hubble Women Making History: Madison Brodnax