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@NASAHubble

The official X account for the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, managed and operated by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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    The galaxy UGC 477 keeps the lights down low. It's known as a "low surface brightness" (LSB) galaxy, a type that's very difficult to detect. Unlike the bulges of normal spiral gal…

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    The galaxy UGC 477 keeps the lights down low. It's known as a "low surface brig…
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    Stars or galaxies? Short answer: both! This Hubble image shows a cluster of galaxies. But the few "spiky" points of light are stars. These diffraction spikes are the result of how…

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    Stars or galaxies? Short answer: both! This Hubble image shows a cluster of gal…
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    A galactic odd couple. Though a trick of perspective makes them look like they're overlapping, the center galaxy is roughly 54 million light-years away from Earth, while the spira…

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    A galactic odd couple. Though a trick of perspective makes them look like they'…
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    Buzz, buzz! 🐝 The Beehive Cluster is home to about a thousand stars, loosely connected by gravity. It's one of the closest star clusters to Earth at approximately 600 light-years…

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    Buzz, buzz! 🐝 The Beehive Cluster is home to about a thousand stars, loosely co… Buzz, buzz! 🐝 The Beehive Cluster is home to about a thousand stars, loosely co…
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    100 million light-years down the river... 🚣 Nestled in the "Celestial River" constellation of Eridanus, the galaxy NGC 1266 previously experienced a major burst of star formation,…

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    100 million light-years down the river... 🚣 Nestled in the "Celestial River" co…
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    Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎 #OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field Camera 3 on Hubble during Servicing Mission 4. WFC3 provides images across three broad regions of lig…

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    Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎 #OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field C… Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎 #OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field C… Name a better office view. 🧑‍🚀🌎 #OTD in 2009, astronauts installed Wide Field C…
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    Galactic gargantuan! The galaxy UGC 12591 and its halo contain several hundred billion times the mass of our Sun, which is four times the mass of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. R…

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    Galactic gargantuan! The galaxy UGC 12591 and its halo contain several hundred…
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    For Roman, from Hubble 💌 Before our next telescope teammate @NASARoman launches later this year, Hubble studied some of the same regions in our galaxy's center that Roman plans to…

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    For Roman, from Hubble 💌 Before our next telescope teammate @NASARoman launches…
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    This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman! As @NASA's first chief astronomer, she pushed to turn the Hubble mission from hopeful speculation t…

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    This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!… This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!… This Mother's Day, we're thinking of the "Mother of Hubble": Nancy Grace Roman!…
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    When Hubble launched in 1990, there were zero known exoplanets. Now, @NASA has confirmed the existence of over 6,000 planets beyond our solar system! Take a tour to some of the wi…

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    Even galaxies get bloated. Called A2261-BCG, the brightest galaxy seen near image-center is home to a puffy core, rather than a peak of light around a central black hole. In fact,…

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    Even galaxies get bloated. Called A2261-BCG, the brightest galaxy seen near ima…
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    The force awakens in newborn stars. Hubble captured some cosmic "lightsabers" far, far away. These are actually young stellar jets, colliding at fast speeds with nearby gas and du…

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    The force awakens in newborn stars. Hubble captured some cosmic "lightsabers" f… The force awakens in newborn stars. Hubble captured some cosmic "lightsabers" f…
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    When the trip makes it out of the group chat 😎 The starry spiral galaxy NGC 3137 travels through space as part of a galaxy group. Dubbed the "NGC 3175 group" after its largest mem…

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    When the trip makes it out of the group chat 😎 The starry spiral galaxy NGC 313…
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    Did you know April is Citizen Science Month? Public participation in scientific research helps solve the mysteries of the universe! Find out more about Hubble's citizen science wo…

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    Raising the bar. NGC 4394 is a barred spiral galaxy, captured here by Hubble. Bright spiral arms emerge from a central bar of stars. These arms sparkle with young blue stars, dark…

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    Raising the bar. NGC 4394 is a barred spiral galaxy, captured here by Hubble. B…
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    Another banner year! Today officially marks 36 years of Hubble. The mission is still going strong, with images and discoveries that constantly change the way we understand our uni…

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    NGC 4163 might look like a calm galaxy, but it played host to a "starburst" 200 million years ago. This period of fast and furious star-forming acted like a chain reaction. Pocket…

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    NGC 4163 might look like a calm galaxy, but it played host to a "starburst" 200…
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    Hearing Hubble got a People's Voice Award? We like the sound of that! Thanks to your votes, Hubble's DIY-sonification activity won in @TheWebbyAwards. Congratulations to all the w…

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    Hearing Hubble got a People's Voice Award? We like the sound of that! Thanks to…
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    Under the sea or up in space? 🌊 Join Dr. Jennifer Wiseman on a tour of Hubble's 36th anniversary image of the Trifid Nebula. Find out more about this new view and "cosmic sea slug…

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    Welcome to Hubble's 36th birthday week! ✨🎂 We're kicking things off with a new view of the cosmos, courtesy of the telescope-of-honor. Hubble captured brilliant details of the Tri…

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    Welcome to Hubble's 36th birthday week! ✨🎂 We're kicking things off with a new…