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HUBBLE

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Official @ESA feed for #Hubble Space Telescope — the space-based observatory which has revolutionised modern astronomy. #BFFinSpace with @ESA_Webb

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Our #HubbleTopImage features gravitational lensing 🔍 in Abell 1689! This Hubble image from 2010 shows the galaxy cluster Abell 1689, with the mass distribution of the dark matter in the gravitational lens overlaid in purple. The mass in this lens is made up partly of normal
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Jun 4
Our #HubbleTopImage features a galaxy 😈 which rules the neighbourhood! ESO 306-17 is a large, bright elliptical galaxy in the southern sky of a type known as a ‘fossil group’ due to their isolation. But are they really like fossils – what is left of a once-active community – or
Bully galaxy rules the neighbourhood
From esahubble.org
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Jun 2
In the 2026 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar, the month of June features the young star cluster Pismis 24, which is found in the Lobster Nebula 🦞✨ approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth. This is one of the nearest sites of massive star birth! Ready to print .pdf here:
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May 31
Spiralling towards the innermost reaches of the Virgo Cluster! ↩️ Access more space-themed .gifs at our giphy page: giphy.com/esahubble
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May 30
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Read more here: esahubble.org/images/potm260… 📷 @esa / @HUBBLE_space & @NASA , D. Thilker and the MAUVE-HST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) 🎶 Stellardrone - Billions and Billions 3/3
Journey to the centre of a galaxy cluster
From esahubble.org
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May 30
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As M88 approaches, it will experience ram pressure stripping (its gas will be swept away as it pushes through the gas between galaxies in the cluster). This will affect its ability to form stars, and change the course of its evolution! 2/3
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May 30
Messier 88 (M88) is on a journey to the innermost reaches of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of more than 1000 galaxies bound by gravity, orbiting the massive elliptical galaxy at the centre 👹🌌 1/3
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May 29
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M88 will be changed by its journey thanks to ram pressure stripping – a process in which a galaxy’s gas is swept away as it pushes through the gas between galaxies in a cluster. This will affect its ability to form stars, and change the course of its evolution. Read more:
Journey to the centre of a galaxy cluster
From esahubble.org
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May 29
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As they move through space, they also orbit the cluster’s centre of gravity. M88 is on a long, perilous cosmic journey that will bring it into the innermost reaches of the cluster – and draw close to the monstrous galaxy at the centre 👹🌌 2/3
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May 29
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month takes a journey to the centre of a galaxy cluster! Messier 88 (M88) is located about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices (Berenice’s Hair). It is a member of the Virgo Cluster, a collection of more than 1000
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May 28
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The study involved Hubble photographing hundreds of overlapping views of the same part of the Universe over nearly 1000 hours of observations! Read more: esahubble.org/news/heic1005/ 📷 @NASA , @esa , P. Simon (University of Bonn) and T. Schrabback (Leiden Observatory) 2/2
Hubble confirms cosmic acceleration with weak lensing
From esahubble.org
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May 28
Our #HubbleTopImage weighs up the COSMOS field ⚖️ This image shows the (mostly dark) matter distribution in the COSMOS field, created from data taken by Hubble and ground-based telescopes. 1/2
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May 7
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Read more: esahubble.org/news/heic1018/ 📷 @NASA , @esa , and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgement: J. Hughes (Rutgers University) 2/2
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Hubble spots a celestial bauble
Hubble has spotted a festive bauble of gas in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Formed in the aftermath of a supernova explosion that took place four centuries ago, this sphere of...
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