Hubble Peers Into the Heart of the Milky Way Galaxy
Mar 31, 2016 · At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, which is about 4 million times the mass of our sun. More information and annotated images: Hubble’s Journey to the Center of our Galaxy.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever …
2 days ago · That’s because we are embedded inside the Milky Way. This is like trying to understand the layout of New York City by standing in the middle of Central Park," said NASA. Hubble’s sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our Sun.
100 years ago, Edwin Hubble proved our Milky Way galaxy isn't …
4 days ago · Shapley's goal was to measure the size of the Milky Way — and hence the universe as he saw it — by creating the first official cosmic distance ladder.
NASA Celebrates Edwin Hubble's Discovery of a New Universe
6 days ago · Many astronomers long believed that the edge of the Milky Way marked the edge of the entire universe. But Hubble determined that V1, located inside the Andromeda "nebula," was at a distance that far exceeded anything in our own Milky Way galaxy. This led Hubble to the jaw-dropping realization that the universe extends far beyond our own galaxy.
NASA’s Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy’s Scrape with Milky Way
Nov 14, 2024 · A story of survival is unfolding at the outer reaches of our galaxy, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is witnessing the saga. The Large Magellanic Cloud, also called the LMC, is one of the Milky Way galaxy’s nearest neighbors. This dwarf galaxy looms large on the southern nighttime sky at 20 times the apparent diameter […]
Hubble Captures a Cluster in the Heart of the Milky Way
Mar 5, 2024 · This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6).
NASA's Hubble Sees Aftermath of Galaxy's Scrape with Milky Way
Nov 14, 2024 · In an epic story of survival witnessed by the Hubble Space Telescope, one of our nearest galactic neighbors has crashed through the Milky Way galaxy's gaseous halo and lived to tell the tale. But in the process, this dwarf galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been stripped of most of its own surrounding halo of gas.
The Milky Way - NASA
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Milky Way Bulge - HubbleSite
Jan 11, 2018 · This Hubble Space Telescope image of a sparkling jewel box full of stars captures the heart of our Milky Way galaxy. Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun-like stars, in this crowded region of …
View of the heart of our Milky Way from Earth | ESA/Hubble
Jan 12, 2018 · The vast edge-on stretch of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is seen intersecting the night sky above the silhouetted Rocky Mountains in this photograph. The Milky Way noticeably widens at lower right. This wider area is the central hub, or bulge, of our galaxy.