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Hubble Space Telescope

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Hubble captures near-infrared images of infant protostars — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble captures near-infrared images of infant protostars

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured near-infrared images of newly developing, dust-shrouded protostars in several high-mass star-forming regions as part of an effort to study how massive stars form. Protostars are hidden by thick dust that blocks visible light, but Hubble can detect near-infrared emission that shines through holes

Hubble image shows Lupus 3 star-forming cloud in Scorpius — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble image shows Lupus 3 star-forming cloud in Scorpius

The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged Lupus 3, a star-forming cloud about 500 light‑years away in the constellation Scorpius. The image shows white wisps of gas swirling through the region and a dark dust cloud in the lower-left. Bright T Tauri stars are visible at the left, bottom

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb finds no thick atmospheres on TRAPPIST-1 b and c; studies continue

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is deepening study of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a collection of at least seven Earth-sized rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf about 40 light-years away. Follow-up work after the initial 2015 ground-based detections established the system’s seven roughly Earth-sized worlds, with Spitzer measurements used

Hubble unveils images of protoplanetary disks and protostars — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble unveils images of protoplanetary disks and protostars

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope released a collection of new visible- and infrared-light images showing protoplanetary disks, the swirling gas-and-dust structures that surround forming stars. Visible-light frames show dark, planet-forming dust disks around hidden protostars with bipolar jets of gas traveling about 93 miles (150 km) per second. The visible

Hubble images show protostars and jets carving cavities in Orion cloud — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble images show protostars and jets carving cavities in Orion cloud

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured three images of just-forming stars, or protostars, in the Orion Molecular Cloud complex, a region in the “sword” of the constellation Orion roughly 1,300 light‑years away. The images were taken as part of an effort to study the envelopes of gas

Hubble captures young stellar objects in NGC 1333 — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble captures young stellar objects in NGC 1333

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a new image of the star-forming region NGC 1333 that shows a diverse collection of young stellar objects, including a protostar with a protoplanetary disk and several Orion variable stars. To the left of the image an actively forming protostar lights a surrounding

Webb shows most hot dust in Circinus feeds its central black hole — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Webb shows most hot dust in Circinus feeds its central black hole

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the sharpest image yet of the central region of the Circinus Galaxy, about 13 million light-years away, and found that most of the hot, infrared‑emitting dust is located near the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. The research was published Tuesday in

Hubble team including Dr. Rachael Beaton finds new type of astronomical object — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble team including Dr. Rachael Beaton finds new type of astronomical object

A team including Dr. Rachael Beaton of the Space Telescope Science Institute used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a new type of astronomical object, according to a NASA Science post. Dr. Beaton is on the leadership council of the Cosmic Origins Stars Science Interest Group (Stars SIG)

Hubble captures massive protostar jet HH 80/81 in Sagittarius — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble captures massive protostar jet HH 80/81 in Sagittarius

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a jet of gas from a forming star producing bright pink and green patches identified as the Herbig-Haro pair HH 80/81, located about 5,500 light-years away in the Sagittarius constellation. The patches running diagonally through the image are HH 80/

Cloud-9 identified as a starless hydrogen cloud 14 million light‑years away — Static01.nyt.com

Cloud-9 identified as a starless hydrogen cloud 14 million light‑years away

Astronomers announced the discovery of Cloud-9, a starless cloud of hydrogen about 14 million light‑years from Earth that they say is the first confirmed example of a Reionization-Limited H I Cloud (RELHIC). Cloud-9 was the ninth hydrogen cloud found near a nearby spiral galaxy and contains no detectable stars;

Hubble finds no stars in radio-discovered Cloud-9, reported as starless galaxy — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble finds no stars in radio-discovered Cloud-9, reported as starless galaxy

At the American Astronomical Society meeting in Phoenix, COPAG executive committee member Rachael Beaton reported the discovery of a starless galaxy called Cloud-9. The object was first detected with radio telescopes and examined with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Hubble follow-up observations searched for stars commensurate with the radio‑emitting

Hubble and ground telescopes detect gas wake from Betelgeuse companion — Assets.science.nasa.gov

Hubble and ground telescopes detect gas wake from Betelgeuse companion

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories have detected a trail of dense gas in Betelgeuse’s extended atmosphere created by a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian report. The team tracked changes in the star’s light over

Hubble Captures Gas Plume Stripped from Spiral Galaxy in Virgo Cluster — Nasa.gov

Hubble Captures Gas Plume Stripped from Spiral Galaxy in Virgo Cluster

A new Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4388, located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and a resident of the Virgo galaxy cluster. Seen nearly edge-on from Earth, the galaxy reveals a previously unseen plume of gas streaming from its nucleus and billowing

Hubble Reveals Gas Plume Escaping Spiral Galaxy NGC 4388 — Nasa.gov

Hubble Reveals Gas Plume Escaping Spiral Galaxy NGC 4388

A new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4388 from nearly edge-on, revealing a plume of gas streaming from its nucleus. NGC 4388 lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo and is a member of the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster, which contains