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A galactic odd couple.

The large, hazy galaxy at center is Messier 60; the bright spiral at upper right is NGC 4647. Together, they make up the pair Arp 116!

Though a trick of perspective makes them look like they're overlapping, M60 is roughly 54 million light-years away from Earth, while NGC 4647 is about 63 million light-years away.

Image description: A hazy elliptical galaxy shines at image center, with a blue-white spiral galaxy appearing smaller at upper right.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

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Buzz, buzz! 🐝

The Beehive Cluster is home to about a thousand stars, loosely connected by gravity. It's one of the closest star clusters to Earth at approximately 600 light-years away!

These images from Hubble show only parts of this teeming collection of stars, along with some distant galaxies.

Discover more for World Bee Day at the link in our bio!

Image descriptions/credits:

1 - Several bright stars and many background galaxies are visible against a black background. (NASA, ESA and C. Scarlata (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))
2 - Background galaxies and stars are sprinkled across a black background. Some of the distant galaxies are spirals. (NASA, ESA, and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLabProcessing/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))

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Buzz, buzz! 🐝

The Beehive Cluster is home to about a thousand stars, loosely connected by gravity. It's one of the closest star clusters to Earth at approximately 600 light-years away!

These images from Hubble show only parts of this teeming collection of stars, along with some distant galaxies.

Discover more for World Bee Day at the link in our bio!

Image descriptions/credits:

1 - Several bright stars and many background galaxies are visible against a black background. (NASA, ESA and C. Scarlata (University of Minnesota - Twin Cities); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))
2 - Background galaxies and stars are sprinkled across a black background. Some of the distant galaxies are spirals. (NASA, ESA, and S. Lilly (Eidgenossiche Technische Hochschule) and DECam/CTIO/NOIRLabProcessing/NSF/AURA; Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America))

#WorldBeeDay #NASA #Hubble #bees #stars

Stellar nursery 👶

Several baby stars are within Cepheus A, the star-forming region seen here by Hubble.

While much of the region is shrouded in opaque dust, light from hidden stars breaks through outflow cavities to illuminate and energize areas of gas and dust, creating pink and white nebulae.

In fact, one particularly large and luminous protostar accounts for about half of Cepheus A's brightness!

Cepheus A lies about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus.

Music credit: "Building the Future" by Laurent Couson [SACEM] via Koka Media [SACEM], Universal Production Music France [SACEM], and Universal Production Music

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Fedriani (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

#NASA #Hubble #nebula #space #science

A hundred million light-years down the river... 🚣

Nestled in the "Celestial River" constellation of Eridanus, the galaxy NGC 1266 offers a unique glimpse into a "post-starburst" galaxy.

These are galaxies that previously experienced a major burst of star formation, but are now quieter. NGC 1266 is home to a young population of stars, but few active star-forming regions.

Astronomers think that NGC 1266 had a minor merger with another galaxy some 500 million years ago, which triggered its past starburst episode.

Uncover more at the link in our bio!

Image description: This Hubble image is of a bright lenticular galaxy seen nearly face on. Broad bright and dimmer areas of light hint at a spiral structure, but there are no distinct spiral arms. Rusty-reddish-brown dust bisects the galaxy. More distant galaxies dot the black background, some even shining through the less dense regions of the bright foreground lenticular galaxy.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, K. Alatalo (STScI); Image Processing: G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)

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Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎

#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4. WFC3 not only helps Hubble see deeper into the universe, but it also provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared.

Seventeen years later, WFC3 and Hubble continue to help astronomers make groundbreaking astrophysics discoveries.

Image descriptions:
1 - Astronaut John Grunsfeld poses for a picture, with the reflection of Hubble, Earth, and astronaut Andrew Feustel in his helmet.
2 - Taken through a window on the space shuttle, the lower portion of Hubble is visible with astronaut Andrew Feustel on the robotic arm completing work.
3 - With Earth in the background, Hubble is seen with astronaut Andrew Feustel completing servicing work.

#NASA #OnThisDay #Hubble #astronaut

Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎

#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4. WFC3 not only helps Hubble see deeper into the universe, but it also provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared.

Seventeen years later, WFC3 and Hubble continue to help astronomers make groundbreaking astrophysics discoveries.

Image descriptions:
1 - Astronaut John Grunsfeld poses for a picture, with the reflection of Hubble, Earth, and astronaut Andrew Feustel in his helmet.
2 - Taken through a window on the space shuttle, the lower portion of Hubble is visible with astronaut Andrew Feustel on the robotic arm completing work.
3 - With Earth in the background, Hubble is seen with astronaut Andrew Feustel completing servicing work.

#NASA #OnThisDay #Hubble #astronaut

Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎

#OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4. WFC3 not only helps Hubble see deeper into the universe, but it also provides images across three broad regions of light: ultraviolet, visible, and into the near-infrared.

Seventeen years later, WFC3 and Hubble continue to help astronomers make groundbreaking astrophysics discoveries.

Image descriptions:
1 - Astronaut John Grunsfeld poses for a picture, with the reflection of Hubble, Earth, and astronaut Andrew Feustel in his helmet.
2 - Taken through a window on the space shuttle, the lower portion of Hubble is visible with astronaut Andrew Feustel on the robotic arm completing work.
3 - With Earth in the background, Hubble is seen with astronaut Andrew Feustel completing servicing work.

#NASA #OnThisDay #Hubble #astronaut

Why is UGC 12591 so remarkable? Let us count the ways...

1) It's huge! This galaxy and its halo contain several hundred billion times the mass of our Sun, which is four times the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way.

2) It's hybrid! UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a spiral and lenticular (lens-shaped) classification type.

3) It's quick! It rotates at speeds of up to 1.1 million miles per hour (1.8 million km/hr).

Image description: A massive galaxy seen near lower-left glows from its core, with dark brown dust lanes surrounding it. A smaller galaxy appears in the top right corner, and other galaxies and stars dot the black background of space.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

#HubbleClassic #NASA #Hubble #galaxy #space

This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!

As @NASA's first chief astronomer, she pushed to turn the Hubble mission from hopeful speculation to pioneering reality.

In just a few months, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch and begin the next big mission in astronomy.

With complementary wavelengths of light and a larger field of view, this telescope will work alongside Hubble and @NASAWebb to settle essential questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and much more.

Image descriptions:
1 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman points at a poster showing the constellations, labeled "A map of the heavens".
2 - Nancy Grace Roman poses for a photo in front of autumn trees and a white house.
3 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman works on a large, ground-based observatory.

All images courtesy of Nancy Grace Roman.

#MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #NancyGraceRoman #NASA #NASARoman

This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!

As @NASA's first chief astronomer, she pushed to turn the Hubble mission from hopeful speculation to pioneering reality.

In just a few months, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch and begin the next big mission in astronomy.

With complementary wavelengths of light and a larger field of view, this telescope will work alongside Hubble and @NASAWebb to settle essential questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and much more.

Image descriptions:
1 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman points at a poster showing the constellations, labeled "A map of the heavens".
2 - Nancy Grace Roman poses for a photo in front of autumn trees and a white house.
3 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman works on a large, ground-based observatory.

All images courtesy of Nancy Grace Roman.

#MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #NancyGraceRoman #NASA #NASARoman

This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!

As @NASA's first chief astronomer, she pushed to turn the Hubble mission from hopeful speculation to pioneering reality.

In just a few months, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch and begin the next big mission in astronomy.

With complementary wavelengths of light and a larger field of view, this telescope will work alongside Hubble and @NASAWebb to settle essential questions about dark energy, exoplanets, and much more.

Image descriptions:
1 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman points at a poster showing the constellations, labeled "A map of the heavens".
2 - Nancy Grace Roman poses for a photo in front of autumn trees and a white house.
3 - In a black-and-white photo, Nancy Grace Roman works on a large, ground-based observatory.

All images courtesy of Nancy Grace Roman.

#MothersDay #HappyMothersDay #NancyGraceRoman #NASA #NASARoman

What in the worlds?!

When Hubble launched in 1990, there were zero known exoplanets.

Now, NASA has confirmed the existence of over 6,000 planets beyond our solar system! Take a tour to some of the wildest ones that Hubble has studied in this video.

#NASA #Hubble #exoplanet #science #space

Look what the telescope dragged in... 🐈

The Cat's Eye Nebula offers a stunning cosmic "fossil record" of a dying star's episodic mass loss, showing cast-off layers of material forming concentric shells and dense knots.

This nebula is roughly 4,400 light-years away, and calls the constellation Dorado home.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Z. Tsvetanov

Music credit: "Hunger Games" by Sebastian Barnaby Robertson [BMI], Tristan Calder [ASCAP], and Brandon Hale [ASCAP] via Killer Tracks [BMI], Soundcast Music [SESAC], and Universal Production Music

#NASA #Hubble #cats #nebula #space

Even galaxies get bloated.

Called A2261-BCG, the brightest galaxy seen near image-center stretches 10 times the diameter of our Milky Way Galaxy!

It's a member of a weird class of galaxy with a puffy core, rather than a concentrated peak of light around a central black hole. In fact, at 10,000 light-years across, the core is one of the largest ever seen.

Studying galaxies like A2261-BCG helps astronomers find out how black hole behavior might shape galactic cores.

Image description: A cluster of galaxies shines against black space, seen as spirals, dots, and disks glowing in hues of white, blue, and orange. Just above center, a particularly large and hazy orange elliptical galaxy glows.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Postman (STScI), T. Lauer (NOAO), and the CLASH team

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The force awakens in newborn stars.

Hubble captured some cosmic "lightsabers" far, far away. These are actually young stellar jets, colliding at super fast speeds with neighboring gas and dust.

It's these energetic collisions that create Herbig-Haro objects. HH 24 and HH 111 shine through Jedi-like cloaks of dust in these views.

Image descriptions/credits:
1 - A cloudy region of space glows orange with the light of a jet arcing diagonally through the image. (NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe (ESA) Collaboration, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii))
2 - A reddish haze of gas and dust is pierced by a diagonal blue filament, against the black backdrop of space. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini)

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #StarWars #NASA #Hubble

The force awakens in newborn stars.

Hubble captured some cosmic "lightsabers" far, far away. These are actually young stellar jets, colliding at super fast speeds with neighboring gas and dust.

It's these energetic collisions that create Herbig-Haro objects. HH 24 and HH 111 shine through Jedi-like cloaks of dust in these views.

Image descriptions/credits:
1 - A cloudy region of space glows orange with the light of a jet arcing diagonally through the image. (NASA and ESA; Acknowledgment: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)/Hubble-Europe (ESA) Collaboration, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii))
2 - A reddish haze of gas and dust is pierced by a diagonal blue filament, against the black backdrop of space. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Nisini)

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou #StarWarsDay #StarWars #NASA #Hubble

When the trip makes it out of the group chat 😎

The starry spiral galaxy NGC 3137 travels through space as part of a galaxy group. Dubbed the "NGC 3175 group" after its largest member, this galaxy gang also contains several smaller dwarf galaxies.

Astronomers gathered these observations in hopes of learning more about our own group of galaxies, which they believe is similar to NGC 3175's group. Our Milky Way Galaxy, along with our closest major neighbor Andromeda, are the largest members of the Local Group.

But the galaxy NGC 3137 is also worth observing for its relative cosmic proximity to us, at about 53 million light-years away, making it an ideal laboratory for studying how stars form and die.

Find out more about this new view at the link in our bio!

Image description: A spiral galaxy seen close up and tilted at an angle, so that its disk fills the view from corner to corner. Its disk is yellow near to the center and pale blue farther out, showing cooler and hotter stars, respectively. Thin brown clouds of dust, glowing pink spots of star formation, and sparkling blue patches filled with star clusters swirl through the galaxy. Behind it, small orange dots are very distant galaxies.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the PHANGS-HST Team

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