This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. This observation is a gem from the Galaxy Zoo project, a citizen science project involving hundre […]
一颗恒星的死亡痛苦剧烈地扰乱了它的行星系，以至于留下的死恒星，即白矮星，正在吸走系统内外的碎片。这是天文学家首次观测到白矮星同时消耗岩石金属和冰质物质，这是行星的组成成分。 NASA哈勃太空望远镜和其他NASA观测站的档案数据对于诊断这起宇宙同类相食案件至关重要。这些发现有助于描述演化行星系统的剧烈性质，并可以告诉天文学家新形成系统的组成。 这些发现是基于对附近白矮星G238-44大气中捕获的物质的分析。白矮星是像我们的太阳一样的恒星在核聚变过程中，外层脱落并停止燃烧燃料后的残留物。“我们从未见过这两种物体同时吸积到一颗白矮星上。”首席研究员、加州大学洛杉矶分校本科毕业生特德·约翰逊说。“通过
Like Sherlock Holmes’s magnifying glass, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope can peer into an astronomical mystery in search of clues. The enigma in question concerns the globular cluster Ruprecht 106, pictured here. Unlike most globular clusters, Ruprecht 106 may be what astronomers call a single p
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looks at two spiral galaxies, collectively known as Arp 303. The pair, individually called IC 563 (bottom right) and IC 564 (top left), are 275 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sextans. The image holds data from two sepa
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a section of the spiral galaxy nicknamed the Needle’s Eye – an appropriately diminutive name for a dwarf spiral galaxy. The Needle’s Eye, also known as NGC 247 and Caldwell 62, is located about 11 million light-years away in the Sculptor Group – the closest gr
NASA的哈勃太空望远镜完成了近30年的马拉松比赛，校准了40多个时空“里程碑”，以帮助科学家精确测量宇宙的膨胀率——这是一项曲折的探索。 这组来自NASA哈勃太空望远镜的 36 幅图像展示了这些特征星系，它们都是造父变星和超新星的宿主。 这两种天体现象都是天文学家用来确定天文距离的重要工具，并已被用于改进我们对哈勃常数（宇宙膨胀率）的测量。 这张照片中显示的星系（从顶行，左行到底行，右行）是：NGC 7541，NGC 3021，NGC 5643，NGC 3254，NGC 3147，NGC 105，NGC 2608，NGC 3583，NGC 3147，Mrk 1337，NGC 5861，NGC
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the central region of the gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474. Located some 100 million light-years from Earth, NGC 474 spans about 250,000 light-years across – that’s 2.5 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy! Along with its enormous size, NGC
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image spotlights the giant elliptical galaxy, UGC 10143, at the heart of galaxy cluster, Abell 2147, about 486 million light-years away in the head of the serpent, the constellation Serpens. UGC 10143 is the biggest and brightest member of Abell 2147, which itsel
Astronomers have identified a rapidly growing black hole in the early universe that is considered a crucial “missing link” between young star-forming galaxies and the first supermassive black holes, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope to make this discovery. This artist’s im
NASA的哈勃太空望远镜建立了一个非凡的新基准：探测宇宙大爆炸后最初十亿年内存在的恒星的光——这是迄今为止观测到的最远的一颗恒星。 与之前哈勃望远镜在2018年观测到的单星记录保持者相比，这一发现是一个巨大的飞跃。那颗恒星存在于宇宙大约 40 亿年的时候，即宇宙当前年龄的 30% ，天文学家将其称为“红移 1.5”。科学家使用“红移”一词是因为随着宇宙膨胀，来自遥远物体的光在向我们传播时会被拉伸或“移动”到更长、更红的波长。 这颗新发现的恒星距离地球如此之远，以至于它的光需要 129 亿年才能到达地球，在我们看来，它就像宇宙只有当前年龄的 7%，红移 6.2 时的那样。以前在如此遥远的距离上看
