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Mysterious spiral galaxy jet puzzles astronomers: 'At first, I thought I completely messed up'

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Jets from a distant galaxy could offer fresh clues to how galaxies and their black holes evolve over eons.

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a giant swirling galaxy like an eye in space with a yellow center and red and white spiral arms.

'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo

By Samantha Mathewson published

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope
Three large jupiters are below eight saturns, flanked by three uranus and three neptune.

Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)

By Josh Dinner published

The space agency has learned a lot over 10 years observing the weather of our solar system's outer planets.

Hubble Space Telescope
A long thin galaxy with shining center stretches diagonally upward from left to right.

Inside the Hubble Space Telescope's 23-year-long look at a beautiful blue galaxy

By Larissa G. Capella published

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 and 2023.

Hubble Space Telescope
in a pink haze of space, a galaxy near center top shoots three blue lines downward left, to a gaseous smudge labeled LMC Halo.

Hubble Telescope witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas

By Conor Feehly published

The Hubble Space Telescope may have captured our Milky Way galaxy being a bit of a bully.

Hubble Space Telescope
space telescope photo of a nebula in deep space, with a bright white star at the center of an orange gas cloud

Hubble Telescope sees 'stellar volcano' erupt in amazing colors (video, photo)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an intricate portrait of R Aquarii, an odd nearby binary star system that occasionally erupts into spectacular novae.

Hubble Space Telescope
A dazzling spiral galaxy of bright blue and dark red gasses with spurts of pink.

Hubble Space Telescope spies a spiral galaxy in a cosmic 'clock'

By Samantha Mathewson published

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a bright spiral galaxy on a diagonal tilt, resembling a pendulum swinging back and forth through space.

Hubble Space Telescope
The vast blackness of space is filled with little points of light that are galaxies, one trapped in a white box, is magnifited in a larger white box in the middle.

Hubble Space Telescope suggests our ancient universe was surprisingly crowded with supermassive black holes

By Keith Cooper published

A 14-year Hubble Space Telescope study suggests the universe was teeming with supermassive black holes. But how could that be?

Hubble Space Telescope
countles points of bright light, stars in the black of space.

The Andromeda Galaxy glows rosy red in gorgeous new Hubble Telescope image

By Samantha Mathewson published

The reddish structures of our neighboring galaxy glow brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope
countles points of bright light, stars in the black of space.

Hubble Telescope spies a very sparkly mini-galaxy (image)

By Victoria Corless published

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged one of Andromeda's dwarf galaxies. It's named Pegasus.

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