The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...
"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...
In this special Hubble image 23 years in the making, the sparkling spiral galaxy UGC 10043 reveals the secrets of its ...
Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...
For the first time, astronomers have traced a fast radio burst (FRB) to the outskirts of an ancient, dead, elliptical ...
Using the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Achenbach spotted an unusual spiral galaxy quasar with a visible jet. This calls into ...
Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.
About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and ...
The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the United States Navy uses quasars as beacons. Quasars are distant galaxies with ...
Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.