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Zoom Into the Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

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Fly across the local galactic neighborhood to the Triangulum galaxy (M33), a smaller spiral than our Milky Way galaxy. Zoom in first on one of M33’s bright regions of star birth, nebula NGC 604, glowing with hot ionized hydrogen gas. The remarkable ability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to resolve millions of individual stars is on display in this pan across M33’s dense star field.... Read More | Share it now!

Hubble Timelapse of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

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This is a time-lapse sequence compressing Hubble Space Telescope observations of Comet 2I/Borisov, spanning a seven-hour period. As the second known interstellar object to enter our solar system, the comet is moving along at a breakneck speed of 110,000 miles per hour. To photograph the comet Hubble has to track it, like a photographer tracking a racetrack horse. Therefore, background stars are streaked in the exposure frames. An artificial satellite also crosses the field of view. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around an unseen solid icy nucleus. Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second such interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system. In 2017, the first identified interstellar visitor, an object dubbed ‘Oumuamua, swung within 24 million miles of the Sun before racing out of the solar system.... Read More | Share it now!

Hubble Legacy Field – Zoom Out

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This video begins with a view of the thousands of galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and slowly zooms out to reveal the larger Hubble Legacy Field, containing 265,000 galaxies. The Hubble Legacy Field combines 16 years’ worth of Hubble observations into a single image that represents the largest and most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies ever made. They stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the universe’s birth in the big bang.... Read More | Share it now!