This image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights the galaxy z8_GND_5296, which was recently confirmed as the galaxy most distant from our own that's been discovered. Because of its distance, it shows what things would have been like 700 million years after the Big Bang. Click through to see more images from Hubble:
Images from the Hubble telescope —
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights the galaxy z8_GND_5296, which was recently confirmed as the galaxy most distant from our own that's been discovered. Because of its distance, it shows what things would have been like 700 million years after the Big Bang. Click through to see more images from Hubble:
V. Tilvi/Texas A&M/S. Finkelstein/UT Austin/The CANDELS team/HST/NASA
The Butterfly Nebula, or NGC 6302, features rolling cauldrons of gas heated to temperatures higher than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A dying star ejected its envelope of gasses to form the nebula with its winglike formation.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
The Butterfly Nebula, or NGC 6302, features rolling cauldrons of gas heated to temperatures higher than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. A dying star ejected its envelope of gasses to form the nebula with its winglike formation.
making the cast-off material glow.NASA/ESA/Hubble SM4 ERO Team
Hubble provides a view of what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen. I Zwicky 18 may not have begun active star formation until about 13 billion years after the Big Bang.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
Hubble provides a view of what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen. I Zwicky 18 may not have begun active star formation until about 13 billion years after the Big Bang.
NASA/ESA/Y. Izotov/Main Astronomical Observatory/Kyiv, UA/T. Thuan/Univ. of Virgini
The Whirlpool Galaxy's spirals are made up of long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. Some astronomers believe that the arms are so prominent because of the effects of NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
The Whirlpool Galaxy's spirals are made up of long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust. Some astronomers believe that the arms are so prominent because of the effects of NGC 5195, the small, yellowish galaxy at the outermost tip of one of the Whirlpool's arms.
NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith/STScI/The Hubble Heritage Team
This image of Saturn is seen in ultraviolet light, revealing the properties and sizes of aerosols in Saturn's gaseous makeup.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
This image of Saturn is seen in ultraviolet light, revealing the properties and sizes of aerosols in Saturn's gaseous makeup.
NASA/ E. Karkoschka/University of Arizona
The Hourglass Nebula is a young planetary nebula. The hourglass shape may be produced by the expansion of a fast stellar wind within a slowly expanding cloud, which is denser near its equator than near its poles.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
The Hourglass Nebula is a young planetary nebula. The hourglass shape may be produced by the expansion of a fast stellar wind within a slowly expanding cloud, which is denser near its equator than near its poles.
Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger/JPL)/WFPC2 science team/NASA
Comet ISON is seen against a backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
Comet ISON is seen against a backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars.
NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team
M82, known as the Starburst Galaxy, features a bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds and plumes of glowing hydrogen emanating from its central regions. Throughout the galaxy's center, young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside our entire Milky Way Galaxy.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
M82, known as the Starburst Galaxy, features a bright blue disk, webs of shredded clouds and plumes of glowing hydrogen emanating from its central regions. Throughout the galaxy's center, young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside our entire Milky Way Galaxy.
NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team
More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image of the Orion Nebula. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. Ultraviolet light from the four central stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
More than 3,000 stars of various sizes appear in this image of the Orion Nebula. Some of them have never been seen in visible light. Ultraviolet light from the four central stars is carving a cavity in the nebula and disrupting the growth of hundreds of smaller stars.
NASA/ESA/M. Robberto/Space Telescope Science Institute
DEM L 190's filaments are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy.
Images from the Hubble telescope —
DEM L 190's filaments are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy.
NASA/The Hubble Heritage Team