It's
#MayTheFourth
, so you know what that means – space "lightsabers"!
Partially obscured by a dark, Jedi-like cloak of dust, a newborn star's "force awakens" as it shoots twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe:
IC 776 is kind of a complicated galaxy.
It's both a dwarf galaxy and a "weakly barred" spiral galaxy – it has a ragged, disturbed central disc that spirals around the galactic core with arcs of star-forming regions.
For more on this
#HubbleFriday
image:
Just this morning, Hubble changed its clock. 🕒
Remember Y2K? It turns out Hubble has something similar – only Hubble’s clock restarts every 6,213 days, 18 hours, 48 minutes, and 31.875 seconds.
AKA, about every 17 years, so today marked Hubble's second clock change!
Goddard saw many visitors tour our Greenbelt campus in April. Visitors saw the integration of
@NASARoman
, explored our
@NASAHubble
Operations Control Center, and learned more about our future Venus mission DAVINCI. Visit our Flickr album for more:
Round and round we go…
Into another Hubble puzzle! Before time runs out, try to guess the name of this iconic image.
Hint: This galaxy is located about 31 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Its relative proximity to Earth and face-on orientation have…
The enormous elliptical galaxy ESO 306-17 stretches a million light-years across – ten times the size of our home galaxy, the Milky Way! It has attracted and absorbed smaller galaxies that once surrounded it, too.
For more on this
#HubbleClassic
view:
We’re so obsessed we act like it’s your birthday every day! 🎂
Last week,
@NASAHubble
turned 34. Celebrate with a look back at the last year of amazing science.
UPDATE:
@NASA
restored the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to science operations on April 29. The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros.
All of Hubble’s instruments are online, and the spacecraft has resumed taking science…
NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode April 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope issue. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health.
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Sometimes, space looks back.
This cosmic face is made up of two galaxy cores (the eyes) surrounded by a ring of blue stars (the face).
Known as Arp-Madore 2026-424, this galactic gaze will merge into one galaxy in 1-2 billion years:
#HubblesWildest