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 […]
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
This Hubble Space Telescope image features two merging galaxies in the VV-689 system, nicknamed the Angel Wing. Unlike chance alignments of galaxies, which only appear to overlap when viewed from our vantage point on Earth, the two galaxies in VV-689 are in the midst of a collision. The galactic int
NASA钱德拉X射线天文台对100多个星系进行的一项新调查发现，有迹象表明，黑洞正在吞噬数千颗恒星，以增加其质量。图中所示的4个星系是样本中29个星系中的4个，这些星系显示了黑洞在其中心附近不断生长的证据。来自钱德拉（蓝色）的X射线被叠加在NASA哈勃太空望远镜拍摄的NGC 1385、NGC 1566、NGC 3344和NGC 6503的光学图像上。翻转图中出现的方框勾勒出正在萌芽的黑洞的位置。 这些新的结果表明，至少其中一些黑洞要达到现在的大小，经历了某种程度上暴力的方式——恒星毁灭的规模是前所未见。 天文学家对两类不同的黑洞进行了详细的研究。较小的种类是“恒星质量”黑洞，其质量通常为太阳质
We’re celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The Hickson Compact Group 40. This eclectic galaxy grouping includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-l
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 143. The pair contains the glittery, distorted, star-forming spiral galaxy
This striking image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 298, a stunning pair of interacting galaxies. Arp 298 – which comprises the two galaxies NGC 7469 and IC 5283 – lies roughly 200 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The larger of the two galaxies pict
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 169 (bottom) and the galaxy IC 1559 (top). Interestingly, both galaxies have monumentally e
