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Hubble Space Telescope
@HubbleTelescope
News from the Hubble Space Telescope operated by the Space Telescope Science Institute (@spacetelescope, @stsci) in partnership with NASA.
Apr 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In a lonely patch of the universe, five tightly grouped galaxies engage in a leisurely dance. For its 32nd birthday 🥳, #Hubble captured these galaxies at a very special moment in their lifetimes as they fall together and continue their dance, but before they merge. (1/7) 🧵 This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an ell Called the Hickson Compact Group 40 (HCG 40), this eclectic bunch includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. In about 1 billion years, they will collide and merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy. (2/7)
Mar 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Hubble has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star⭐️ that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang—the farthest individual star ever seen to date! (1/7) 🧵 The newly detected star—Earendel—is so far away that its light has taken 12.9 billion years to reach Earth, appearing to us as it did when the universe was only 7% of its current age. (2/7)