Press Releases & Feature Stories Archive - Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory

Hubble Catches a Transformation in the Virgo Constellation

12.09.2016

This galaxy is showing warpage from the gravitational influence of a massive collection of more than 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster.

Hubble Spotlight on Irregular Galaxy IC 3583

12.02.2016

Irregular galaxy IC 3583 sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo.

Tangled Threads Weave Through Cosmic Oddity

12.01.2016

New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater detail than ever before.

Hubble Spies Spiral Galaxy

11.22.2016

Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).

Hubble Nets a Subtle Swarm

11.18.2016

This Hubble image shows NGC 4789A, a dwarf irregular galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

Hubble Steals a Look at a Hungry Giant

11.10.2016

Astronomers think that this lenticular galaxy, NGC 1222, is in the process of swallowing up two much smaller dwarf galaxies that strayed too close to it.

Hubble Takes Flight with the Toucan and the Cluster

11.04.2016

NGC 299 is an open star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away.

Hubble Admires a Youthful Globular Star Cluster

10.28.2016

The globular cluster shown in this Hubble, NGC 362, is one of the more unusual ones.

A Dead Star's Ghostly Glow

10.27.2016

The eerie glow of a dead star, which exploded long ago as a supernova, reveals itself in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula.

Hubble Spins a Web Into a Giant Red Spider Nebula

10.21.2016

Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.

NASA, Citizen Scientists Discover Potential New Hunting Ground for Exoplanets

10.21.2016

Via a NASA-led citizen science project, eight people with no formal training in astrophysics helped discover what could be a fruitful new place to search for planets outside our solar system – a large disk of gas and dust encircling a star known as a circumstellar disk.

Hubble Sees Cassiopeia’s Unusual Resident

10.14.2016

Hubble found a spiral galaxy with unusual star formation going on, some 38 million light-years away in Cassiopeia.

Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought

10.13.2016

The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded than previously though thanks to a deep sky census by Hubble and major observatories.

Hubble Peers Into the Center of a Spiral

10.07.2016

This Hubble image shows the central region of a spiral galaxy known as NGC 247.

Hubble Detects Giant 'Cannonballs' Shooting from Star

10.06.2016

Hubble detected superhot blobs of gas ejected from a dying star so fast it would take only 30 minutes for them to travel from Earth to the moon.

Hubble Explores the Hidden Dark Side of NGC 24

09.30.2016

This shining disk of a spiral galaxy sits approximately 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Sculptor.

NASA’s Hubble Spots Possible Water Plumes Erupting on Jupiter's Moon Europa

09.26.2016

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged what may be water vapor plumes erupting off the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. This finding bolsters other Hubble observations suggesting the icy moon erupts with high altitude water vapor plumes.