Hubble Space Telescope
Monster Black Holes Lurk at the Edge of Time
The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Early Galaxy Found from the Cosmic ‘Dark Ages’
In the big image at left, the many galaxies of a massive cluster called MACS J1149+2223 dominate the scene. Gravitational…
Holy Galaxify Batman! Galaxy Zoo Allows Users to Put Their Name in Big Lights
If you're going to put your name in lights, you might as well go big; REALLY big. And with millions…
Win a Hubble Photograph, Now Through September 16
We all hate to see the summer end (coming soon in the northern hemisphere) but before the September equinox arrives,…
Hubble’s Hidden Treasures Unveiled
A quick check of Hubble's gallery shows just 1,300 images; however more than raw 700,000 images reside in a vast…
Star Clusters on a Clandestine Collision Course
Astronomers originally thought that just one massive star cluster shone brightly in a huge star forming region of the Tarantula…
Inspiring Video: The Biological Advantage of Being Awestruck
How many times a week do we use the word "awesome" here on Universe Today? While we haven't kept track,…
Hubble Spies Tiny, Ancient ‘Ghost Galaxies’
They're out there; tiny, extremely faint and incredibly ancient dwarf galaxies with so few stars that scientists call them 'ghost…
Early Black Holes were Grazers Rather than Glutonous Eaters
Black holes powering distant quasars in the early Universe grazed on patches of gas or passing galaxies rather than glutting…
Thierry Legault: One Transit is Not Enough
[/caption] Astrophotographer Thierry Legault had told us he was traveling to Australia for the Transit of Venus, so we knew…