This proved that the "nebula" were actually separate systems outside and independent of our galaxy. It was the first evidence of galaxies outside our own, and Hubble soon went on to discover about ...
Others show their face in stunning detail, and the galaxy known as NGC 5468 most definitely falls into the latter group. As NASA shows off in a new showcase, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped an ...
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Windhorst, W. Keel It's the year 2000. We're floating in space, and we come across the side view of a spectacular spiral galaxy. It's called UGC 10043 and is located ...
A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is ... 10 percent of its halo because of its high mass." Most of the LMC's halo was blown ...
Rather, the galaxy appears to us as a thin, striking line across the cosmos. Though these thoughts sound like mostly a dream to us, for over 30 years in orbit, it has been the Hubble Space Telescope's ...
For an astronomical object (e.g. a star or a galaxy) at a known distance from the Earth ... exploding stars suggest a Hubble constant of 69.8 km/s/Mpc, but other reports have pushed the value as high ...