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Astronomers Find A Star Cluster Filled With Numerous Small Black Holes

Astronomers Find A Star Cluster Filled With Numerous Small Black Holes

Though most star clusters have a black hole at the center of their systems, astronomers were surprised to see a new cluster that actually had several small black holes in the middle rather than one large example of the mysterious space phenomenon. According to Space.com, researchers came across the discovery after studying the movement of […]

3y ago

Hubble Spots A Spooky ‘Ghost Face’ Shaped By Two Colliding Galaxies

Hubble Spots A Spooky ‘Ghost Face’ Shaped By Two Colliding Galaxies

A ghostly face is staring into the cosmos with piercing eyes in the latest photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Unveiled by NASA earlier this week, the haunting apparition owes its chilling, peculiar look to a pair of twin galaxies, found in the throes of a violent smash-up. Locked in an epic, head-on collision, […]

5y ago

Scientists Are Baffled By A Newly Discovered Black Hole That ‘Shouldn’t Exist’

Scientists Are Baffled By A Newly Discovered Black Hole That ‘Shouldn’t Exist’

Space can be a baffling mystery, and scientists are left frustrated yet again after the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a black hole in a galaxy 130 million light-years away that “shouldn’t exist,” per Science Daily. The finding was particularly unusual because it discovered a disk of material spinning around the supermassive black hole at the […]

5y ago

Hubble Snaps Stunning Image Of An Ancient Galaxy Cluster Roughly 7 Billion Light-Years Away

Hubble Snaps Stunning Image Of An Ancient Galaxy Cluster Roughly 7 Billion Light-Years Away

In the 29 years since it’s been scouring the skies to investigate the mysteries of the deep cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back a vast collection of mind-blowing photos, unraveling some of the most beautiful structures in the universe. Over the years, the venerable spacecraft has treated scientists and space enthusiasts to awe-inspiring […]

5y ago

NASA Unveils Mind-Blowing Map Of The Distant Universe Encompassing 265,000 Ancient Galaxies

NASA Unveils Mind-Blowing Map Of The Distant Universe Encompassing 265,000 Ancient Galaxies

After scouring a specific – and incredibly vast – swath of sky for a cumulated period of 250 days spread over a staggering 16 years of activity, all in the pursuit of never-before-seen, far-flung galaxies, the Hubble Space Telescope has helped create an awe-inspiring mosaic of the deep universe, NASA announced earlier this week. Unveiled […]

5y ago

Hubble Celebrates 29th Birthday With A Stunning Photo Of The Southern Crab Nebula

Hubble Celebrates 29th Birthday With A Stunning Photo Of The Southern Crab Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 29 years old next week. Launched on April 24, 1990, the venerable spacecraft has spent close to three decades in orbit, scouring the skies with its inquisitive gaze and imaging the distant cosmos in a bid to help us unravel some of the universe’s greatest mysteries. Each year on Hubble’s […]

5y ago

Hubble Captures The Colorful Glimmer Of A Distant Star Cluster 33,900 Light-Years Away

Hubble Captures The Colorful Glimmer Of A Distant Star Cluster 33,900 Light-Years Away

High up in the northern sky, an ancient star cluster almost twice as old as planet Earth twinkles in the distance with a beckoning glow. Known as Messier 3, or M3, this is one of the most captivating globular star clusters discovered so far. “Globular clusters are inherently beautiful objects,” states NASA, “but Messier 3 […]

5y ago

Rare ‘Self-Destructing’ Asteroid Is Spinning Itself Apart

Rare ‘Self-Destructing’ Asteroid Is Spinning Itself Apart

Some 214 million miles from the sun, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, a peculiar asteroid is hurtling through space, gradually spinning itself apart. Known as 6478 Gault, this particular space rock is part of a group of rare “self-destructing” asteroids that are slowly crumbling away as a result of their own rotation, explains […]

5y ago

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Captured Stunning Images Of A Massive Storm Swirling On Neptune

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Captured Stunning Images Of A Massive Storm Swirling On Neptune

For the first time, the Hubble Space Telescope has been able to capture stunning images of the massive storm swirling on Neptune which is part of the planet’s Great Dark Spot. As Phys.org reports, while most people are aware that Jupiter has a storm called the Great Red Spot, which is believed to have been […]

5y ago

Scientists Have Just Calculated The Truly Phenomenal Weight Of The Entire Milky Way Galaxy

Scientists Have Just Calculated The Truly Phenomenal Weight Of The Entire Milky Way Galaxy

Scientists have just calculated the weight of the Milky Way and it is truly phenomenal in its mass. After analyzing our galaxy, it was determined that the Milky Way shares the same weight as a whopping 1.5 trillion suns stacked up and stretched for a staggering 256,000 light years. According to The Daily Mail, the […]

5y ago

Listen To The Eerie Song Of Distant Galaxies In This Haunting Audio Clip From NASA

Listen To The Eerie Song Of Distant Galaxies In This Haunting Audio Clip From NASA

Some 4 billion light-years away from Earth, a massive galaxy cluster is sprawling in the vastness of space, stretching the spiral arms of its many elliptical structures like glowing tentacles in the cosmic night. The galaxy cluster in question is known as RXC J0142.9+4438 and was first spotted last year by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. […]

5y ago

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Captured A Raging Storm On Neptune That Stretches For 6,800 Miles

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Captured A Raging Storm On Neptune That Stretches For 6,800 Miles

The Hubble Space Telescope has just captured a raging storm of hydrogen sulfide on the planet Neptune which is so immense that it stretches for a total of approximately 6,800 miles. To give an indication of just how very large this is, if such a storm were ever unleashed here on Earth, it would devour […]

5y ago

Tiny Galaxy Discovered By Accident In Our ‘Cosmic Backyard’

Tiny Galaxy Discovered By Accident In Our ‘Cosmic Backyard’

Astronomers have just made an incredible discovery while scouring the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope. Hidden behind a distant star cluster, the scientists uncovered a never-before-seen dwarf galaxy located right in our “cosmic backyard.” The news comes from NASA, which announced earlier today that the newfound galaxy is a “dwarf spheroidal galaxy that is […]

5y ago

Hubble Spots A Spiral Galaxy Bleeding Out Into The Cosmos

Hubble Spots A Spiral Galaxy Bleeding Out Into The Cosmos

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back a striking image of a massive tail of gas exuding from a distant spiral galaxy nicknamed D100. The eye-catching tail of hot gas stretches far behind the galaxy, extending nearly 200,000 light-years — or about twice the length of the Milky Way galaxy. At the same time, the […]

5y ago

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Revealed ‘Lost’ Light Of The Universe In Breathtaking New NASA Photo

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Revealed ‘Lost’ Light Of The Universe In Breathtaking New NASA Photo

For close to 30 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been studying the universe in minute detail, and this powerful telescope has now revealed “lost” light of the universe in a breathtakingly beautiful new NASA photograph. As the Express reports, astronomers have discovered how to detect this lost light of the universe within the […]

5y ago

Hubble’s Glitchy Camera Is Back In Action, Will Soon Begin Observing The Sky Again

Hubble’s Glitchy Camera Is Back In Action, Will Soon Begin Observing The Sky Again

UPDATE: “The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 was brought back to full operational status and completed its first science observations just after noon EST today, January 17,” NASA just announced. Last week, the Inquisitr reported that the Hubble Space Telescope had suffered another technical malfunction which resulted in the shutdown of the spacecraft’s […]

6y ago

Astronomers Have Just Discovered The Brightest Quasar In The Early Universe

Astronomers Have Just Discovered The Brightest Quasar In The Early Universe

In an incredible discovery, astronomers have spotted the brightest quasar to ever be seen in the early universe. Dubbed J043947.08+163415.7, this fantastic object lit up the cosmos at a time when the universe was less than 1-billion-years-old, shining with the blaze of 600 trillion suns, reports the Hubble Space Telescope website. Located 12.8 billion light-years […]

6y ago

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Lost The Use Of Its Main Camera

The Hubble Space Telescope Has Lost The Use Of Its Main Camera

Three months after being hobbled by a gyroscope glitch, the Hubble Space Telescope has suffered another malfunction. This time, it is the spacecraft’s main camera — the Wide Field Camera 3 (WF3) — that got knocked off-line, NASA announced today, citing “a hardware problem” as the cause of the anomaly. According to the space agency, […]

6y ago

Hubble Spots Brilliant Arcs Of Light Spawned By A Baby Star 800 Light-Years Away

Hubble Spots Brilliant Arcs Of Light Spawned By A Baby Star 800 Light-Years Away

The Hubble Space Telescope has ended 2018 in style. On the last day of the year, the venerable spacecraft shared a stunning photo of a mesmerizing optical phenomenon unfolding just 800 light-years from Earth in a nebula called NGC 1333. Known as a reflection nebula, NGC 1333 is located in the Perseus constellation. This object […]

6y ago

Scientists Have Finally Discovered A Way To ‘See’ Dark Matter With The Hubble Space Telescope

Scientists Have Finally Discovered A Way To ‘See’ Dark Matter With The Hubble Space Telescope

An international team of scientists believe that they have finally found a way to “see” dark matter, which is an invisible and elusive substance that makes up 85 percent of the matter in the universe. As the Daily Mail has reported, in a new study, astronomers hailing from Spain and Australia have written that by […]

6y ago

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