The Kuiper Belt object 148780 Altjira, already known to be a binary system shows signs of containing a third member in new Hubble observations: https://bit.ly/3EQtQnK image
#NASAWebb orbits the Sun near Sun-Earth Lagrange point 2 (L2), approximately 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) from Earth. This makes it possible for Webb to remain in constant communication with Earth. Learn more about L2: https://webbtelescope.pub/3BY6H1x image
Bullseye! Researchers using Hubble found a massive galaxy rippling with nine star-filled rings after an β€œarrow,” the blue dwarf galaxy to its center-left, plunged through its core 50 million years ago. A thin trail of gas still links the pair: https://bit.ly/4hcX52n image
The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, has been unveiled. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait of our neighboring galaxy and was created from more than 600 snapshots: https://bit.ly/405MsbK #AAS245 image
#NASAWebb has spotted a reverberating light echo spreading across space. As a light pulse travels through space, it illuminates previously unseen material, revealing intricate structures resembling wood grain: https://webbtelescope.pub/422ET6Z #AAS245
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Hubble just celebrated a decade of tracking our solar system’s outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus and Neptuneβ€”as seen in this montage of observations taken since 2014. (1/8) 🧡 image
The Sombrero Galaxy stuns in a new portrait from #NASAWebb: https://webbtelescope.pub/3CzPHPc image
In addition to exploring the far reaches of the universe, #NASAWebb is used for science in our solar system, including this image of Neptune, with detail of its delicate rings and methane-ice clouds. Discover the Solar System with Webb: https://webbtelescope.pub/47v4JRE image
Astronomers recently used Uranus as a proxy for an exoplanet, comparing high-resolution images from Hubble to the smaller view from the New Horizons spacecraft. What they found can help inform future missions designed to image far-flung planets: https://bit.ly/3Y8zJE1 image