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NGC 7496
A well-studied spiral
The celestial object that is displayed in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 7496, a galaxy located over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus (The Crane). NGC 7496 is a dusty spiral galaxy with a bar of stars stretching across its centre. Adding to...
Circinus Galaxy
Black holes don’t suck, they get fed!
Today’s Picture of the Week gives us a closer look at how black holes in the centre of galaxies feast. As some of you already know, the common belief that black holes simply suck in anything that comes near them, is wrong. Material can only fall into a black hole when it’s slowed down somehow —...
NGC 6951
Starbursting centre
The glittering galaxy in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week is NGC 6951, which resides about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. As this Hubble image shows, NGC 6951 is a spiral galaxy with plenty of intriguing structures. Most eye-catching are its...
Cha 1107-7626
Location in the sky of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 (visible light)
This visible-light image, part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2, shows the position in the sky of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626. The planet (not visible here) is located exactly at the centre of the frame.
Cha 1107-7626
Location in the sky of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 (infrared)
This infrared image, taken with ESO’s Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) shows the position in the sky of the rogue planet Cha 1107-7626. The planet is a dot located exactly at the centre of the frame.
NGC 2775
Spiral, elliptical or neither?
Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a galaxy that’s hard to categorise. The galaxy in question is NGC 2775, which lies 67 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (The Crab). NGC 2775 sports a smooth, featureless centre that is devoid of gas,...
NGC 6000
Yellow and blue, old and new
Stars of all ages are on display in today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. This sparkling spiral galaxy is called NGC 6000 and it is located 102 million light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. This galaxy has a glowing yellow centre and glittering blue outskirts....
M82
The smouldering heart of a celestial cigar
What lurks behind the dense, dusty clouds of this galactic neighbour? There lies the star-powered heart of the galaxy Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar Galaxy. Located just 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major (The Great Bear), the Cigar Galaxy is considered a...
LMC N44C
Cloudy cluster
This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a cloudy starscape from an impressive star cluster. This scene is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy situated about 160 000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa. With a mass equal to...
GRB 250702BDE
GRB 250702B, an unusually long and repeating gamma-ray burst
The orange dot at the centre of this image is a powerful explosion that repeated several times over the course of a day, an event unlike anything ever witnessed before. The image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), allowed astronomers to determine that the explosion didn’t take place...
GRB 250702BDE
Wider view of the area around the gamma-ray burst GRB 250702B
This image shows a wider area around the gamma-ray burst GRB 250702B, a high energy explosion that repeated several times over the course of a day. The image was taken on 3 July using the HAWK-I infrared camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The explosion is the orange source right at the...
Infinity Galaxy
Chandra Joins In Discovery of Infinity Galaxy and Possible Newborn Black Hole
Scientists have discovered an oddly-shaped galaxy that may contain the first newborn supermassive black hole ever spotted.
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Pictor A
Blast from Black Hole in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
A galaxy with an extensive jet located about 500 million light years from Earth.
