Little Dumbbell Nebula, M76. Discovered in 1780 by Messier’s colleague Pierre Méchain, M76 has an apparent magnitude of 12 and is best viewed in December. While it is possible to… Continue reading 186-Little Dumbbell Nebula, M76

For the first time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured time-lapse images of a large, dark storm on Neptune shrinking out of existence. A recent Hubble program called Outer Planets… Continue reading 187-Hubble Watches Neptune’s Dark Storm Die

Messier 37 - Salt and Pepper Open Cluster Astrophotography. M37 is the brightest, richest and largest of the three open clusters in this constellation that were catalogued by Messier. https://youtu.be/DZNgIdsdG28

M8: The Lagoon Nebula Famously known as the Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 shines by the ionizing ultraviolet radiation of its embedded young stars. https://youtu.be/AxlALSjks4A

Largest Batch of Earth-size Habitable Zone Planets Found Orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have conducted the first spectroscopic survey of Earth-sized planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system's habitable… Continue reading 190-Hubble Observes Atmospheres of TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets in the Habitable Zone

Humanity's drive to explore led to one of the most iconic exploration machines of all time, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This video was edited by summer interns at the Goddard… Continue reading 191-Hubble Inspires Our Inner Explorer

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… Continue reading 192-Hubble Captures Supernova’s Light Echo

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… 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… 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,… 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.… 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… Continue reading 197-Hubble’s Galaxy-Observing Superpowers

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… 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… Continue reading 199-Hubble Views Jupiter at Opposition

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… Continue reading 200-Hubble Detects a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole

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,… Continue reading 201-Goddard + Hubble, Valentines Since 1984 (Longer Cut)

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… 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,… Continue reading 203-NASA Goddard’s 2016 Mixtape