Hubble Telescope : Science World Report

Jan 17, 2013 04:20 PM EST

Crowd-sourced Analysis of Hubble Archive Yielded Fantastic Image

New insights were found in this star-forming region located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. The huge clouds of gas seen within it are slowly collapsing, forming new stars in the process. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors, visib...

Jan 14, 2013 11:23 PM EST

Most Beautiful Cradle of Newborn Stars [Hubble Photo]

This cradle of newborn stars, a star cluster known as NGC 602, is located not far from our Milky Way galaxy, near the outskirts of one of the several small satellite galaxies circling our own galaxy. The Small Magellanic Cloud is some 200 thousand light-years away.

Dec 31, 2012 06:53 PM EST

New Years Eve galaxy from Hubble Telescope [PICTURE]

This beautiful spiral galaxy 45 million light-years away, slightly resembling exploding fireworks, was selected as the picture for today's New Years Eve 2013 by NASA. Its defined by a super-massive black hole 100 million times the mass of our sun in its center, which is drawing matter towards the mi...