Neptune in a new light! 🔵
Hubble’s view of this planet looks pretty different from 's new image, on the right.
That’s because these two telescopes looked at the planet in different wavelengths of light. ⬇️
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Happy (almost) New Year!
Before we ring in 2023, we need your help choosing our Twitter audience’s favorite Hubble image released in 2022.
Vote in the poll below, which features the images that got the most likes this year. Then we’ll post the winner on New Year’s Eve!
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What better way to mark #NewFriendsDay than with this new view?
One of Hubble’s most iconic shots now has a complementary companion from our friend !
This star-forming region is known as the Pillars of Creation, and shows a small region of the Eagle Nebula.
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Welcome to the first #HubbleFriday of 2023!
This image features the star cluster NGC 6355, which resides within our own Milky Way Galaxy at a distance of about 50,000 light-years.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3X5SSmw
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Looking good, Jupiter!
Like Earth, this giant planet has northern and southern lights called aurorae.
You can see them near Jupiter’s north and south poles, as observed in ultraviolet by Hubble (left) and infrared by (right): go.nasa.gov/3pEJuIc
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Near-infrared 🤝 Mid-infrared
These Hubble and views of the Pillars of Creation demonstrate how looking at the same cosmic object in different wavelengths of light can unveil different features: go.nasa.gov/3U4EmKh
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What do all these Hubble images have in common?
They show the aftermath of stars that died in a bright, powerful explosion known as a supernova.
In a supernova, a star’s contents fling out into space at speeds of up to 25,000 miles (15,000 to 40,000 km) per second!
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Happy #Halloween from Hubble! 💀 These interacting galaxies create a creepy “face” in space.
There’s no sound in space, but this scary sonification of Hubble's image will send shivers down your spine...
More: go.nasa.gov/3eeJAQ0 #NASAHalloween
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An unfunded Space Act Agreement to conduct a study of a commercial mission to boost Hubble’s orbit and extend its operations was signed by and – a mission concept that may be applied to other spacecraft and commercial vehicles: go.nasa.gov/3SqVCJn
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This black hole is on the move!
Hubble found evidence of an isolated black hole roaming around the Milky Way.
It's estimated that there are about 100 million black holes like this that are drifting through our galaxy: go.nasa.gov/3icsjx4
Happy #BlackHoleFriday!
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🦋 The Butterfly Nebula’s cosmic wings have never looked better, thanks to observations from both Hubble and .
This nebula formed after a star like our Sun used up most of its fuel and shed off its outer layers of material: go.nasa.gov/3rfImMI
🔥 Flame Nebula 🔥
This is a large star-forming region about 1,400 light-years away. In this newly released Hubble image, the focus is on the dark, dusty heart of the nebula: go.nasa.gov/3CFP8O4
#NebulaNovember
This newly released Hubble image shows M55 – a loosely concentrated globular star cluster about 20,000 light-years away.
Only a portion of M55 is seen here, but the whole cluster stretches about 100 light-years in diameter! Read more: go.nasa.gov/3LvT63O
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We’re going even deeper into the web with ! 🕸️
These Hubble & Webb views unveil a star-forming region called the Tarantula Nebula. At a distance of 161,000 light-years, it’s home to the hottest & most massive stars known.
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RECORD BROKEN: Hubble observed the farthest individual star ever seen!
This extraordinary new benchmark detected light from a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3tRj5cP
😍 Hello, outer planets!
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune look as spectacular as ever in these newly released Hubble images.
Hubble checks in on the outer planets every year. Find out what we learned in 2021: go.nasa.gov/3DCjToE
Take it in.
This breathtaking #HubbleFriday view shows the spiral galaxy NGC 976. It’s located 150 million light-years away, in the constellation Aries.
Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3rhUICP
Feast your eyes on the stunning Orion Nebula 🦃🍂
Is it just us, or does it look like a space turkey? #HappyThanksgiving from the Hubble team!
Learn more about this image here: go.nasa.gov/3DRaQzZ
#NebulaNovember
Astronomers using the ultraviolet vision of Hubble have captured one of the largest panoramic views of the fire and fury of star birth in the distant universe. The field features approximately 15,000 galaxies, about 12,000 of which are forming stars: go.nasa.gov/2OHdyhH
Hubble's back! 🎉
After the Hubble team successfully turned on backup hardware aboard the telescope, the observatory got back to work over the weekend and took these galaxy snapshots.
Find out more here: go.nasa.gov/2UjwcVv
DEM L 190 looks like #NewYearsEve fireworks! 🎆
This supernova remnant was also voted our Twitter audience's favorite Hubble image from 2022. Good choice!
DEM L 190 is 160,000 light-years away, and made of the debris from a large star's death. For more: go.nasa.gov/3WXpb7p
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Look familiar? 👀
This iconic shot shows the Pillars of Creation, a star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula.
Beyond looking at it, we can also listen to it! Scientists assign sound to data to give us a new way of understanding the image: nasa.gov/content/explor
For the first time, researchers using Hubble have detected water vapor signatures in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system that resides in the "habitable zone." For more information: go.nasa.gov/2LplGVb
#HappyMothersDay from Hubble! 🌻
We have a cosmic bouquet for you! This image of the “Sunflower Galaxy” (M63) is a beautiful view from 27 million light-years away.
Find out more about this spiral galaxy: go.nasa.gov/3KTxXwt
Now we have a broader (and even more beautiful!) understanding of the galaxy M74!
These Hubble and views show the power of observing in different wavelengths. Hubble’s optical vision highlights older stars near the center and younger, bluer stars in the spiral arms.
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Hello out there, ! 👋
Today, Webb entered its orbit around Lagrange point 2, or L2. That’s about a million miles away, and a whole lot farther than Hubble’s low-Earth orbit at just about 340 miles (547 km) up. Why do these two telescopes have such different orbits? ⬇️
A #HubbleClassic full of stars ✨
Located 8,000 light-years away in a huge star-forming region known as the Carina Nebula, this star cluster is about 500,000 years old.
Explore more: go.nasa.gov/3HdlDG6
Vote to choose your favorite 2020 Hubble image in the poll below! ⬇️
These choices are based on our tweets of images released this year with the most ❤️s! Planets seemed to be pretty popular... 🪐
Can you spot six of Uranus’s moons in this picture? Look closely 🔍
This #HubbleClassic image shows Uranus’ faint rings and some of its moons.
The bright spot in the lower right is Ariel, which has the brightest surface of all of the planet's moons: go.nasa.gov/3IaxU1y
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Happy birthday, Hubble! 🥳
As we celebrate the telescope’s 32nd anniversary week, enjoy this birthday present – a stunning new Hubble image of a collection of five galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 40.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3KZzrWX
News from #AAS241!
Hubble recorded a star's final moments as it was ripped apart and eaten up by a black hole – getting twisted into a donut-like shape in the process.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3W8wBDY
Look up tonight! All the planets in our solar system are visible (some with the help of a telescope). Check your favorite stargazing site for more info!
Of course, you can look at Hubble’s planet images anytime, like this one of Saturn! For more: go.nasa.gov/3vqF7TI
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We asked, you answered!
Our Twitter followers voted galaxy NGC 5037 as Hubble's best image released in 2021.
Despite a distance of 150 million light-years, we can see the galaxy's delicate structures in great detail thanks to Hubble: go.nasa.gov/341pyHG
Happy New Year!
Star cluster Terzan 2 glitters in this week’s #HubbleFriday view! ⭐
This newly released image shows a globular cluster – a roughly spherical group of stars bound together by gravity. Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3uQVdGs
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Whoa... much better.
A flaw in Hubble's mirror meant that the telescope first looked to the universe with blurry vision. But #OTD in 1994, announced that new optics installed during the first servicing mission to Hubble had solved the problem: go.nasa.gov/3bHorip
Today marks 29 years since Hubble was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery! It has been unlocking the mysteries of the universe for nearly three decades. Here are a few science achievements from Hubble’s latest year in orbit. #Hubble29
Happy New Year! 🥳
Hubble is kicking off 2022 with a major milestone. The telescope began operations 1 billion seconds ago!
In that billion seconds, Hubble made more than 1.5 million observations and astronomers using Hubble data published more than 19,000 scientific papers.
#MayThe4thBeWithYou! Hubble captured this view of a celestial “lightsaber” that’s called HH 24. But it’s not in a galaxy far, far away – it’s in our own Milky Way Galaxy, at a distance of about 1,350 light-years.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3h2f4fI
#StarWarsDay
🤸 Cartwheeling along…
Take a look at these Hubble & Webb views of the Cartwheel Galaxy! In Hubble’s view, the glittering blue regions indicate starbirth.
Thanks to ’s infrared vision that cuts through clouds of gas & dust, previously unseen stars are unveiled!
520 exposures. Over a billion pixels. One mind-blowing image!
This Hubble image shows the stunning Orion Nebula, which is the closest large star-forming region to Earth.
Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3JRSQJN
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If you’re in the northern hemisphere, this is a great time of year to spot cosmic objects from the Messier Catalog in the night sky!
Explore Hubble’s Messier views, and learn how to find them with binoculars or a telescope: go.nasa.gov/3vWM4NZ
Happy #MessierMarathon!
Get swept away by the SWEEPS Field. 😉
This #HubbleClassic image shows a dense collection of stars near our galaxy’s core, at a distance of about 26,000 light-years.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3wo7pjz
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Be our cosmic Valentine? 🌹✨
The “space rose” in this Hubble image is made up of interacting galaxies, named Arp 273. This celestial flower blooms about 350 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3oPmu9k
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us a new image of a nursery for stars in a nearby galaxy to the Milky Way. ✨
Have questions about this new image? Leave them in the comments below! Join Hubble experts later today from 2-4 p.m. EDT for a Q&A.
To mark Hubble’s 33rd anniversary, this new image unveils a cauldron of starbirth! ⭐
NGC 1333 is a star-forming region 960 light-years away. Glowing gasses and pitch-black dust are stirred up and blown around by newly forming stars within the dark cloud: go.nasa.gov/3AdxLFv
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Feeling blue?
So do these baby stars, which shine in bright blue light in this snippet of a larger, soon-to-be-released Hubble image!
This brilliant star-forming region is called the Chameleon Cloud Complex.
This sparkling new Hubble image shows the brilliant globular cluster M14.
Home to over 150,000 stars, M14 played host to a nova in 1938. A nova is a sudden stellar eruption where a star’s brightness increases by a factor of 10,000 in just a few days: go.nasa.gov/3lkAQ2X
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Have you heard the buzz? 🐝
’s “honeycomb”-like mirror unfolded and the telescope is fully deployed!
Like Hubble, Webb is a reflecting telescope – meaning that it gathers light using huge mirrors rather than lenses. So how do the mirrors on Hubble and Webb compare? ⬇️
All instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope are now in operational status, and science data is once again being collected to further our understanding of the universe.
The Hubble Space Telescope backup payload computer was successfully brought online after a successful switch to backup hardware. Following a short checkout period, the science instruments will be brought back to operational status.
Today, we released new Hubble images of 30 beautiful cosmic objects from the Caldwell Catalog in honor of Hubble's 30th anniversary year! 🥳
Explore stunning galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters: go.nasa.gov/3gD36H1
#Hubble30
The galaxy next door!
This #HubbleClassic view shows a star field in the outer disk of the Andromeda Galaxy, which is the nearest major galaxy to our Milky Way.
Explore more: go.nasa.gov/45WRs3i
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Hubble's new images of Jupiter capture the giant planet’s stormy atmosphere.
The Great Red Spot, a storm big enough to swallow Earth, is still shrinking. Beneath it, “Red Spot Jr.” continues to rage and change color, while a new storm brews in the north: go.nasa.gov/2EbbkaP
Thanks to a new project from , we can “listen” to the Pillars of Creation! 🎶
This image combines observations from Hubble and Chandra. Through sonification, we can hear its data transformed into sounds.
For more sonifications: go.nasa.gov/35Y8Wzz
👋 Hey, you! Yes, you.
It’s time to vote for our Twitter audience’s favorite 2021 Hubble image. Below are the images released this year that got the most likes. Now it’s time to choose the winner!
Vote in the poll below and we’ll share the winner on December 31!
"Ring in" 's new image of Uranus!
Hubble has observed the planets in our solar system for decades, and its consistent check-ins give astronomers a wealth of data about their atmospheres and weather.
Now with Webb on the job as well, we can learn even more! ⬇️
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28 years ago today, Hubble was launched into space forever changing our view of the universe. Hubble is still doing amazing science today! Here are just a few of the science achievements from Hubble's latest year in orbit: nasa.gov/hubble #Hubble28
It’s a planet parade! 🪐
Before sunrise, you can catch a naked-eye glimpse of planets “lined up” in the sky: go.nasa.gov/3yeIfV1
But if you aren’t a morning person, Hubble’s got you covered with planetary views of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn!
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Happy #PiDay! It’s March 14th, or 3.14 – also the first digits of pi, a mathematical constant defining the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
This Hubble image shows a circle of stars around the nucleus of a galaxy called Hoag’s Object: go.nasa.gov/3cau0Ew
A cosmic "black eye" shines from 17 million light-years away!
M64 (or the Black Eye galaxy) resides in the constellation Coma Berenices. Get your telescope handy, as this galaxy is best observed in the month of May!
Explore more: go.nasa.gov/3ltCbkl
#GalaxiesGalore
Ultraviolet ➡️ Visible ➡️ Infrared
Different wavelengths mean different views! Hubble’s ultraviolet & visible images offer insight into Jupiter’s atmospheric changes and colors.
’s infrared view was taken to test its instruments during commissioning ⬇️
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📣 December 25 is a BIG day for astronomy!
With the launch of , a new and exciting era of science awaits.
But how is Webb different from Hubble? How will these telescopes work together?
🧵 Read on...
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Hubble has photographed #Saturn and #Mars near their closest approaches to Earth in June and July 2018. These images show that Earth isn’t the only planet where intense spring and summer storms wreak havoc: go.nasa.gov/2K2bZYO
Beauty in the chaos 🌟
These colorful shreds of cosmic material are the "leftovers" of a massive star's supernova explosion!
Known as DEM L 190, this bright supernova remnant resides about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado: go.nasa.gov/3Wi8anN
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Hubble is fully back!
The telescope is now operating with all four active instruments after the team recovered the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on Monday, Dec. 6.
For more information: go.nasa.gov/3lJoA8X
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Happy #WorldPenguinDay! 🐧
This Hubble view of interacting galaxies, known as Arp 142, resembles a penguin with its egg.
In reality, this galactic pair reside about 326 million light-years away in the southern constellation Hydra: go.nasa.gov/3V1SHsV
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Happy launch-iversary to the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope!
Hubble and Fermi have teamed up to study some of the universe’s most powerful events, like the “BOAT” – Brightest of All Time – gamma-ray burst (infrared afterglow circled in image): go.nasa.gov/45XFfem
#Fermi15
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Saturn is known for its iconic rings.
And with Hubble's help, now we know that these rings are also heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere!
This could provide a tool for predicting if planets around other stars have ring systems as well. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3ZtFlWV
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This scene of stellar creation, captured by Hubble, sits near the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula. This cloud of gas and dust, as well as the many young and massive stars surrounding it, is the perfect laboratory to study the origin of massive stars: go.nasa.gov/3b76S7Q
In October 2003, Hubble released this iconic image of the Sombrero galaxy. In honor of #NationalAstronomyDay, see and download this image and those of many other galaxies as captured by Hubble in our brand new galaxy album: flickr.com/photos/nasahub
On Saturn, one season lasts 7.5 years!
Hubble has studied weather on Saturn for years, and will get extra help from once it begins science operations.
Webb will observe Saturn & its moons as part of a comprehensive solar system program: go.nasa.gov/344oRhr
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Gone fishin’? 🎣
We’re wishing a relaxing #FathersDay to all the dads and father figures out there! Enjoy this Hubble view of the Lagoon Nebula, 4,000 light-years away.
Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3CwsVEq
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It’s #ThrowbackThursday! Released 23 years ago this month, these views of Jupiter’s northern and southern auroras were taken in ultraviolet light by Hubble. The auroras are brilliant curtains of light in Jupiter’s upper atmosphere: go.nasa.gov/3qLWxWN
#HappyHolidays from Hubble!
Here’s a festive sonification of RS Puppis, a glittering star wreathed with dust.
Located about 6,500 light-years away, this star rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle: go.nasa.gov/3PNSuab
It’s estimated that about 100 million black holes roam around our Milky Way Galaxy – and for the first time ever, astronomers now believe they may have precisely measured the mass of an isolated black hole with Hubble!
Discover more: go.nasa.gov/3Hfjwmy
It’s #HubbleFriday time! ⏰
The two large spiral galaxies in this image are part of the galactic triplet known as Arp 248, which resides about 200 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.
Explore more: go.nasa.gov/3FKEAmb
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#Hubble30 For its 30th anniversary, Hubble presents a colorful scene nicknamed the "Cosmic Reef." These two nebulas, NGC 2014 in red & NGC 2020 in blue, are part of a vast star-forming region in a nearby galaxy & are illuminated by young, massive stars: nasa.gov/feature/goddar
A #StarrySights stunner! 😍
Welcome to NGC 1850, a star cluster about 160,000 light-years away in a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way, known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3VIoe2u
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Cosmic blooms! 🌸
These flower-like images from Hubble and show the dying star Wolf-Rayet 124 as it casts off outer layers of material.
Wolf-Rayet stars are among the most luminous, massive, and briefly detectable stars known.
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Welcome to a "star factory"!
This #HubbleFriday view shows the Tarantula Nebula, the brightest region of starbirth in our galactic neighborhood.
About 161,000 light-years away, it's within the Large Magellanic Cloud – a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way: go.nasa.gov/3RsBMOh
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On International Day of Women & Girls in Science we remember the "Mother of Hubble," Nancy Grace Roman, who passed away in December at the age of 93. Despite discouragement, she studied math & science and became NASA’s 1st chief astronomer. #WomenInScience go.nasa.gov/2MYxcWQ
Happy #PiDay! March 14th represented in numbers is 3.14, which are the first three numbers in the pi constant. Pi is a mathematical constant used to define the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Hubble observes circular objects every day, like galaxy NGC 7049:
The spiral galaxy NGC 5037 is 150 million light-years away, but Hubble’s powerful vision lets us see delicate structures of gas and dust in this #HubbleFriday image.
NGC 5037 is located in the constellation Virgo.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/2SF3H2Y
Today marks an *extremely* exciting anniversary! 😎
#OTD 10 years ago, the Hubble Extreme Deep Field image was released.
Over 2,000 photos of this spot were combined to create this image, which contains over 5,500 galaxies: go.nasa.gov/3DW81jY
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About 8,000 light-years away, a cluster of young stars called Pismis 24 unleashes intense radiation and winds, carving out a cavity in the nebula where the stars formed. This #HubbleClassic shows the cluster and part of the nebula, called NGC 6357: go.nasa.gov/2J6u9y7
A star is born ⭐
A stellar tantrum – produced by an infant star in the earliest phase of formation – is captured in this week’s #HubbleFriday image.
Learn about how this Herbig-Haro object formed: go.nasa.gov/3pZaMJH
Jupiter & Io 🌕
Io is just one of Jupiter’s many moons, but it takes center stage in this #HubbleClassic image taken 25 years ago. The black dot on Jupiter’s surface is Io’s shadow!
Read more: go.nasa.gov/3ErEqvK
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Just in time for the 2023 #MessierMarathon, Hubble has a new view of M80 to share.
M80 is one of the densest globular clusters in the Milky Way. It's about 28,000 light-years away from Earth and contains hundreds of thousands of stars: go.nasa.gov/3JNPpp1
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Happy #ValentinesDay from Venus – the planet named for the goddess of love! 💖
Hubble captured this image in ultraviolet light back in 1995. Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system, with surface temperatures at about 900 degrees Fahrenheit! More: go.nasa.gov/3E7r36j
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Hundreds of galaxies reside within the core of galaxy cluster Abell 370, located ~4 billion light-years away from Earth.
In this sonification, sound waves are generated based on the brightness and position of the cosmic objects: go.nasa.gov/3LrMdwU
#GalaxiesGalore
Check out this brand new 3D fly-through of the Orion Nebula in both visible and infrared light! For the full video head to: hubblesite.org/news_release/n
Today marks one month since ’s first image reveal! 🥳
On the right is that image from the infrared observatory, showing galaxy cluster SMACS 0723.
Hubble’s view on the left demonstrates the complementary nature of the telescopes across a broader range of wavelengths!
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Here’s a brand new look at Saturn! 📸
Like Earth, Saturn is tilted on its axis and has seasons. In this Hubble image, taken earlier this month, it’s summertime in the northern hemisphere: go.nasa.gov/3fWhOrw
#HappyHolidays from Hubble! 🌟 Unwrap this festive sonification of Caldwell 73, a globular cluster 40,000 light-years away.
These stars are gravitationally bound to each other, with most concentrated at the cluster's center: go.nasa.gov/37If6o6
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The Helix Nebula is 655 light-years away, and 3 light-years across! In this sonification, red is assigned lower pitches and blue higher pitches. While there’s no sound in space, this helps us conceptualize data in an auditory way: go.nasa.gov/32oIo7R
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📍 NGC 5584
About 72 million light-years away, the brilliant, blue glow of young stars traces the spiral arms of the galaxy in this #HubbleClassic image.
Thin, dark dust lanes appear to be flowing from the yellowish core, where older stars reside: go.nasa.gov/3CDjaEs
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Hey, neighbor!
The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to ours, at a distance of about 2.5 million light-years.
This #HubbleClassic view shows just a portion of Andromeda. Learn more about the galaxy "next door": go.nasa.gov/3U0QLQP
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Explore a small region of the inky Coalsack Nebula, imaged by Hubble in visible and infrared wavelengths.
It’s a dark nebula — a cloud of interstellar dust so dense that it blocks out wavelengths of visible light from objects behind it: go.nasa.gov/3tCDAI2
Happy #WorldWildlifeDay! 🐾 🌍 🐦
Earth is full of incredible creatures, but Hubble spotted some animal friends out in the universe, too!
