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Hubble saw Multiple Light Echoes Reflecting off Rings of Dust From a Supernova Explosion. Over a period of two and a half years, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the "light echo" of supernova SN 2014J in galaxy M82, located 11.4 million light-years away.    

The Messier catalog includes some of the most fascinating astronomical objects that can be observed from Earth's Northern Hemisphere. Among them are deep-sky objects that can be viewed in stunning detail using larger telescopes but are also bright enough to be seen through a small telescope. This characteristic makes Messier objects extremely popular targets for… Continue reading 193-Explore the Universe with Hubble Messier Catalog

The photo above and the time-lapse video below show NEOWISE as viewed from the International Space Station (ISS) on July 5, 2020. An astronaut shot more than 340 photos as the comet rose above the sunlit limb of Earth while the ISS passed over Uzbekistan and Central Asia. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered… Continue reading 194-Hubble Sees First-Time Icy Visitor Comet K2

Phobos Photobombs Hubble's Picture of Mars. When the Hubble Space Telescope observed Mars near opposition in May, 2016, a sneaky companion photobombed the picture. Phobos, the Greek personification of fear, is one of two tiny moons orbiting Mars. In 13 exposures over 22 minutes, Hubble captured a timelapse of Phobos moving through its 7-hour 39-minute… Continue reading 195-Phobos Photobombs Hubble’s Picture of Mars

The above photo shows final stages in the life of a supermassive star that fails to explode as a supernova but instead implodes under gravity to form a black hole. A team of astronomers at The Ohio State University watched a star disappear and possibly become a black hole. Instead of becoming a black hole… Continue reading 196-Star Gives Birth to Possible Black Hole in Hubble and Spitzer Images

15,000 Galaxies in One Image. The Hubble Space Telescope is keeping watch over many, many galaxies using the combined superpowers of its incredible optics and a quirk of nature called gravitational lensing.   19 nearby spiral galaxies taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.  

NASA SVS Hubble Directly Images Possible Plumes on Europa. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured even more evidence of water vapor plumes on Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The probable plumes appear to be repeating in the same location and correspond with a relatively warm region on Europa's surface observed by the Galileo spacecraft.   Europa, or… Continue reading 198-Europa Water Vapor Plumes – More Hubble Evidence

The Hubble Space Telescope observed Jupiter on April 3rd, 2017 - just days before Jupiter is in opposition on April 7th. This new image of Jupiter is part of Hubble's Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy program, which is one of many ways Hubble provides science on the Jupiter system. https://youtu.be/IFHTa4SJZzE https://youtu.be/1j3nQv-LSOc

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a quasar named 3C 186 that is offset from the center of its galaxy. Astronomers hypothesize that this supermassive black hole was jettisoned from the center of its galaxy by the recoil from gravitational waves produced by the merging of two supermassive black holes. https://youtu.be/2VUw36ukuQ0 https://youtu.be/1j3nQv-LSOc

NASA SVS-Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Shaking. Hubble's Space Telescope Operations Control Center (STOCC) had its ribbon-cutting ceremony at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on Valentine's Day, 1984, beginning a long-lasting relationship that thrives to this day. https://youtu.be/z_yq2B0l3kE https://youtu.be/1j3nQv-LSOc

https://plus.nasa.gov/video/space-out-hubble/#fullscreen-player Launched on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has provided more than a million observations, advancing studies of the solar system, nebulae, exoplanets, stars, black holes, galaxies, dark matter, and dark energy. The culmination of decades of human ingenuity, the Hubble Space Telescope remains at peak performance and continues humanity's quest for knowledge.… Continue reading 202-Hubble: Humanity’s Quest for Knowledge

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). https://youtu.be/0gTPvLeDmU8 NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the sun, our solar system and the universe. NASA Goddard's rewind is just a small sampling of the… Continue reading 203-NASA Goddard’s 2016 Mixtape