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NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble Find “Twins” of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies

07/01/2016admin

Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun’s mass into space. This expanding veil of gas and dust, which still shrouds Eta Carinae, makes it the only object of its kind […]

Jupiter’s great red spot turns orange as storm abates, Hubble images reveal

14/10/201514/10/2015admin

Most recent images from Hubble space telescope show giant red spot on planet’s atmosphere has continued to shrink and has become more circular. Two images of Jupiter by the Hubble Space Telescope taken at different times on 19 January 2015 reveal cloud movement and confirm the red spot to have turned orange. The raging storm […]

NASA’s Hubble Finds Evidence of Galaxy Star Birth Regulated by Black-Hole Fountain

07/08/2015admin

Astronomers have uncovered a unique process for how the universe’s largest elliptical galaxies continue making stars long after their peak years of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s exquisite high resolution and ultraviolet-light sensitivity allowed the astronomers to see brilliant knots of hot, blue stars forming along the jets of active black holes found in […]

Hubble’s Look at an Extragalactic Peculiarity

25/04/201508/05/2015admin

This galaxy goes by the name of ESO 162-17 and is located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Carina. At first glance this image seems like a fairly standard picture of a galaxy with dark patches of dust and bright patches of young, blue stars. However, a closer look reveals several peculiar […]

Hubble Views a Young and Dynamic Elliptical Galaxy

19/04/201508/05/2015admin

Elliptical galaxies are usually filled with old, dying stars. NGC 2865, however, is relatively youthful and dynamic, with a rapidly rotating disk full of young stars and metal-rich gas. For an elliptical galaxy it contains an unusually high number of young stars — suggesting that a galaxy-wide starburst took place about one billion years ago. […]