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Hubble Space Telescope
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Hubble Space Telescope
@HubbleTelescope
A former account for the Hubble Space Telescope. For more about Hubble, follow @NASAHubble. For more on Hubble's science operations, follow @SpaceTelescope.
Joined June 2008
- Hubble observed a curious linear feature that was first dismissed as an imaging artifact from the telescope’s cameras. But follow-up observations reveal it is a 200,000-light-year-long chain of young blue stars created in the wake of a runaway black hole: bit.ly/3JTk7Ma
- Happy 241st anniversary to Uranus, discovered by William Herschel on this day in 1781! This Hubble image shows the planet with faint rings and … what are those six white spots surrounding the planet? fal.cn/3mTGM
- Who’s throwing shade? Three of Jupiter’s largest moons—Io, Ganymede, and Callisto—as they cross the planet’s face. Hubble caught the rare triple eclipse in 2004. With labels: bit.ly/3TkPEcx Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) and L. Barranger.
00:00 - #Hubble has spotted the farthest star ever seen! A lucky alignment and natural magnification made it possible for the telescope to see the star’s light, which took 12.9 billion years to reach Earth: fal.cn/3nnSu
- Hubble has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star⭐️ that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to date! (1/7) 🧵
- This time-lapse of Hubble images, spanning 22 years, traces the ongoing aftermath of Supernova 1987A. Hubble shows a shockwave from the stellar explosion hitting a ring of material previously cast off by the dying star. Explore the scene: bit.ly/3Hblaal
00:00 - This dramatic video shows a time-lapse of Hubble photos of V838 Mon, which brightened suddenly in 2002. The brilliant flash reflected off surrounding dusty clouds, creating what’s known as a light echo: bit.ly/3htKM7I
00:00 - Hubble had quite a year, but perhaps one its best moments was the release of the 31st anniversary image in April of a giant star on the edge of destruction. Watch as this visualization takes us right up to AG Carinae. Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
00:00 - Researchers using the Hubble have caught a planet in the act of what could be likened to a "flash fry"—a violent and intense process called disk instability. (1/7)
- Do you recognize this mystical looking cloud? It’s a spire of cold gas and dust from the famous Eagle Nebula. This soaring tower is 9.5 light-years (57 trillion miles or nearly 92 trillion kilometers) tall 😨: fal.cn/3iTdK
- How can this star-studded field yield clues to the Milky Way galaxy’s early construction stages? It takes a painstaking eye from Hubble researchers: fal.cn/3mzWC
