Astrophysics Division

Asteroids
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Citizen Science
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Solar System
Like boulders, rocks, and pebbles scattered across a landscape, asteroids come in a wide range of sizes. Cataloging asteroids in space is tricky because they are faint and they don’t stop to be photographed as they zip along their orbits around the Sun. Astronomers recently used a trove of archived images taken by NASA’s Hubble […]
Posted April 18, 2024
Astrophysics Division
Brown Dwarfs
Citizen Science
NEOWISE
Stars
The Universe
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won’t work. Scientists need to use many telescopes with different specializations to chart what is in the general neighborhood of the Sun. Looking to understand more about our neighbors and how they came to be, scientists collaborate with citizen scientists, volunteers from around […]
Posted April 16, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Nebulae
Spiral Galaxies
The Universe
The subject of this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is the spiral galaxy IC 4633, located 100 million light-years away from us in the constellation Apus. IC 4633 is a galaxy rich in star-forming activity and also hosts an active galactic nucleus at its core. From our point of view, the galaxy […]
Posted April 12, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Dark Matter
Dark Matter & Dark Energy
E-Books
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The Universe
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new downloadable e-book in the Hubble Focus series, called “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe.” This e-book highlights the mission’s recent discoveries about two mysterious components of our universe, known as dark energy — an unexplained cosmic pressure that’s speeding up the universe’s expansion — a
Posted April 6, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Galaxies
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
The Universe
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that only includes two galaxies interacting due to gravity: NGC 5996 (the large spiral galaxy) and NGC 5994 (its smaller companion, in the lower left of the image). Both galaxies lie approximately 160 million light-years from Earth, and their […]
Posted April 5, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Science Mission Directorate
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. The program fosters excellence and inclusive leadership in astrophysics by supporting a diverse group of exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists.
Posted April 2, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Star Clusters
Stars
The Universe
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a globular cluster called NGC 1651. Like another recent globular cluster image, NGC 1651 is about 162,000 light-years away in the largest and brightest of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
Posted March 29, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Missions
Stars
The Universe
In the largest and one of the most ambitious Hubble Space Telescope programs ever executed, a team of scientists and engineers collected information on almost 500 stars over a three-year period.
Posted March 28, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Jupiter
Missions
Planetary Environments & Atmospheres
Planetary Science
Planets
The Solar System
The giant planet Jupiter, in all its banded glory, is revisited by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in these latest images, taken on January 5-6, 2024, capturing both sides of the planet. Hubble monitors Jupiter and the other outer solar system planets every year under the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy program (OPAL). This is because these large […]
Posted March 14, 2024
Astrophysics
Astrophysics Division
Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Missions
NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope have tag-teamed to produce definitive measurements of the universe’s expansion rate.
Posted March 11, 2024
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