From absorbing whole dwarf galaxies to containing the mass of a billion stars – black holes are a cosmic force to be reckoned with. This #BlackHoleWeek NASA is bringing us Hubble Space Telescope's 5 weirdest black hole discoveries https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/187921705234/hubbles-5-weirdest-black-hole-discoveries?linkId=74206098 No ownership claimed on material - Credit NASA
Hubble is taking amazing pictures of the outer planets, images that can only be beaten with close range spacecraft (See below). These images are showing that over the years since Voyages flyby the Great Dark Spot that it photographed is almost gone. The reason for this shrinking isn't clear but it gives us a … Continue reading Neptune’s shrinking storm watched by Hubble
Finding a lost probe on a comet and pictures from Hubble of an oyster and pearl nebula with a star cluster make up this week's images from ESA. via Week In Images / Highlights / ESA Simon 🙂 No ownership claimed on material - Credit ESA
This weeks dose of space pics from ESA include a stellar fireball, shrapnel left over from an exploding star and the moon from the ISS. Click on the link to see the full article. via Week In Images / Highlights / ESA Simon 🙂 No ownership claimed on images - Credit ESA
Hubble Space Telescope photo of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles from Earth on May 12, 2016. Credits: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M. Wolff (Space Science Institute) On the 22nd of May, Mars Reaches opposition with Earth - this is where it reaches it's closest … Continue reading Hubble taking advantage of Mars opposition
In the outer regions of the solar system beyond Pluto is a region called the kuiper belt, a stellar junk yard of debris left over from the creation of the solar system. It's out here that we suspect comets come from. Also out in this region is one of five known dwarf planets called MakeMake. … Continue reading Dwarf Planet MakeMake has a moon
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