a spectacular example of strong gravitational lensing with a background galaxy forming a nearly complete ring through the lens of a massive foreground cluster.
These observations were originally taken on 2015 June 29 to study the storms, which were spotted by tireless amateur astronomers, near the northern pole.
Another version of the anniversary dataset, this time with visible and near-infrared imagery combined into a single image.
Hubble’s recent 28th anniversary observations also included some parallel observations which were not part of the photo release. I’m totally here for that.
The Circinus Galaxy is an active spiral galaxy that lies near the plane of our Milky Way so that it is rather heavily obscured by intervening stars and whatever other gas and dust lies along our line-of-sight to it.
This image is intended to show the details around the central black hole of NGC 5643.
Super close-up view of the nucleus of NGC 3227. This time, there are a good number of filters to choose from, so color balancing was simple, but on the other hand, the field of view is quite narrow due to the use of the HRC.
We’re quite used to seeing spiral galaxies with uniformly yellowish cores full of old stars, so when something blue or green is spotted, it seems a bit odd, and that’s one of the ways astronomers can find these fascinating galaxies.
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