Matter accreting around a supermassive black hole (artists impression) HubbleWebbESA 2016-02-17 | At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and falls into the black hole, it emits powerful radiation. This means the area immediately surrounding the black hole is paradoxically very bright, as can be seen in this artist's impression.More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/hubblecast43dCredit:ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)
Zoom into NGC 3256 HubbleWebbESA 2023-07-03 | This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256.This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two spiral galaxies which likely occurred 500 million years ago, and it is studded with clumps of young stars which were formed as gas and dust from the two galaxies collided.Learn more about this image here.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2306cCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Hubble and Webbs Views of NGC 3256 HubbleWebbESA 2023-07-03 | The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 takes centre stage in the two images featured in this video. This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two spiral galaxies which likely occurred 500 million years ago, and it is studded with clumps of young stars which were formed as gas and dust from the two galaxies collided.The first image contains data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3. Here the visible light lays out in detail the dark threads of dust and molecular gas that spin around the centres of the two merged galaxies. Many of the young, infrared-emitting stars produced by the collision are obscured in visible wavelengths by this dark dust.The second image contains data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, using both the Near-InfraRed Camera and the Mid-InfraRed Instrument. The collision that produced NGC 3256 spurred an enormous burst of star formation, and these new stars radiate enormously brightly in infrared wavelengths as seen here. Learn more about this image here.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2306bCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone - The Night Sky in Motion
Pan of NGC 3256 HubbleWebbESA 2023-07-03 | This video features the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and is a denizen of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.NGC 3256 may seem peaceful, a swirl of tightly entwined spiral arms set in a hazy cloud of light, but this image shows the aftermath of an ancient cosmic clash. This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two equally massive spiral galaxies which astronomers estimate to have met around 500 million years ago. The tumultuous past of NGC 3256 is captured in the long tendrils of bright gas and stars which extend outwards from the main body of the galaxy. These luminous tendrils are called tidal tails, and are studded with young stars which were formed as gas and dust from the two galaxies collided.Learn more about this image here.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2306aCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone - Twilight
Pan: Hubble checks in on the neighbours HubbleWebbESA 2023-07-03 | The highly irregular galaxy ESO 174-1, which resembles a lonely, hazy cloud against a backdrop of bright stars, dominates this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. ESO 174-1 lies around 11 million light-years from Earth and consists of a bright cloud of stars and a faint, meandering tendril of dark gas and dust.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2326aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: A dishevelled irregular galaxy HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-26 | The galaxy NGC 7292 billows across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, accompanied by a handful of bright stars and the indistinct smudges of extremely distant galaxies in the background. It lies around 44 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2324aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Hubble and Webb showcase part of the Orion Nebula HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-26 | This video showcases a portion of the Orion Nebula seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, followed by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s view of the same region. The Orion Nebula has been studied by astronomers for hundreds of years, and it has been a frequent target of the Hubble Space Telescope since its launch. This comparison shows the striking difference in views afforded by a visible-light telescope, such as Hubble, and an infrared telescope like Webb.In Webb’s image, infrared light is able to penetrate the dust, but the heated gas also emits its own infrared light, making for a colourful scene with filaments and cavities. In the Hubble image, which was taken during 2004 and 2005, bubbles of gas appear to float in front of the thick, smoky clouds of the nebula. Numerous new stars, some with protoplanetary discs, are visible across both images.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2315bCredit:ESA/Webb, ESA/Hubble, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), O. Berné and the PDRs4All ERS Team, M. Robberto STScI) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team Music: Stellardrone - The Night Sky in Motion
Pan of the Orion Bar region HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-26 | An international team of scientists have used data collected by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to detect a molecule known as the methyl cation (CH3+) for the first time, located in the protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star. They accomplished this feat with a cross-disciplinary expert analysis, including key input from laboratory spectroscopists. The vital role of CH3+ in interstellar carbon chemistry has been predicted since the 1970s, but Webb’s unique capabilities have finally made observing it possible — in a region of space where planets capable of accommodating life could eventually form.This video features NIRCam’s view of the Orion Bar region studied by the team of astronomers. Bathed in harsh ultraviolet light from the stars of the Trapezium Cluster, it is an area of intense activity, with star formation and active astrochemistry. This made it a perfect place to study the exact impact that ultraviolet radiation has on the molecular makeup of the discs of gas and dust that surround new stars. The radiation erodes the nebula’s gas and dust in a process known as photoevaporation; this creates the rich tapestry of cavities and filaments that fill the view. The radiation also ionises the molecules, causing them to emit light — not only does this create a beautiful vista, it also allows astronomers to study the molecules using the spectrum of their emitted light obtained with Webb’s MIRI and NIRSpec instruments.The two very large, bright stars are two of the three stars in the θ² Orionis system — the Trapezium Cluster is also known as θ¹ Orionis. The brightest star here, θ² Orionis A, is surrounded by particularly bright and red puffs of dust, which are reflecting the star’s light towards Earth. Its great brightness — it is visible with the naked eye — is due to the fact that θ² Orionis A is itself a ternary system made of three closely bound bright stars.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2315aCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), O. Berné and the PDRs4All ERS Team Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Pan: Under the Sea HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-26 | The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, showcasing a colourful star-forming disc surrounded by a pale, luminous cloud of dust. A handful of bright stars with criss-cross diffraction spikes stand out against an inky black backdrop at the bottom of the image. JO206 lies over 700 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius, and this image of the galaxy is the sixth and final instalment in a series of observations of jellyfish galaxies.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2323aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: A jellyfish galaxy adrift HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, and is one of several jellyfish galaxies that Hubble has been studying over the past two years.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2321aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Cosmic leviathan HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | This particular galaxy cluster is called eMACS J1823.1+7822, and lies almost nine billion light-years away in the constellation Draco. It is one of five exceptionally massive galaxy clusters explored by Hubble in the hopes of measuring the strengths of these gravitational lenses and providing insights into the distribution of dark matter in galaxy clusters. Strong gravitational lenses like eMACS J1823.1+7822 can help astronomers study distant galaxies by acting as vast natural telescopes which magnify objects that would otherwise be too faint or distant to resolve.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2319aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Scrutinising a star-studded cluster HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | The densely packed globular cluster NGC 6325 glistens in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This concentrated group of stars lies around 26 000 light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus. Globular clusters like NGC 6325 are tightly bound collections of stars with anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of members. They can be found in all types of galaxies, and act as natural laboratories for astronomers studying star formation.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2320aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, E. Noyola, R. Cohen Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Enceladus Plume and Torus HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space telescope recently discovered a plume jetting out from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and extending more than 40 times the size of the moon itself. This animation illustrates how the moon’s water plumes feed the moon’s torus. By analysing the Webb data, astronomers have determined roughly 30 percent of the water stays within this torus, and the other 70 percent escapes to supply the rest of the Saturnian system of water.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2314aCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, G. Villanueva (NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center), A. Pagan (STScI), L. Hustak (STScI)
Pan of NGC 5068 HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | This video features a new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068 as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy’s bright central bar is visible in the upper left of this image. NGC 5068 lies around 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.With its ability to peer through the gas and dust enshrouding newborn stars, Webb is the perfect telescope to explore the processes governing star formation. Stars and planetary systems are born amongst swirling clouds of gas and dust that are opaque to visible-light observatories like Hubble or the VLT. The keen vision at infrared wavelengths of two of Webb’s instruments — MIRI and NIRCam — allowed astronomers to see right through the gargantuan clouds of dust in NGC 5068 and capture the processes of star formation as they happened. This image combines the capabilities of these two instruments, providing a truly unique look at the composition of NGC 5068.You can learn more about this image here.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2305aCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team Music: Stellardrone - Twilight
Webb’s views of NGC 5068 (NIRCam and MIRI images) HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | This video highlights two views of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068 as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy’s bright central bar is visible in the upper left of this image. NGC 5068 lies around 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.With its ability to peer through the gas and dust enshrouding newborn stars, the Webb is the perfect telescope to explore the processes governing star formation. Stars and planetary systems are born amongst swirling clouds of gas and dust that are opaque to visible-light observatories like Hubble or the VLT. The keen vision at infrared wavelengths of two of Webb’s instruments — MIRI and NIRCam — allowed astronomers to see right through the gargantuan clouds of dust in NGC 5068 and capture the processes of star formation as they happened. Both of these views are highlighted in this video.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2305bCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team Music: Stellardrone - The Night Sky in Motion
Zoom into NGC 5068 HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | This video takes the viewers on a journey to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, whose bright central bar is visible in the upper left of this image. NGC 5068 lies around 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo.With its ability to peer through the gas and dust enshrouding newborn stars, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is the perfect telescope to explore the processes governing star formation. Stars and planetary systems are born amongst swirling clouds of gas and dust that are opaque to visible-light observatories like Hubble or the VLT. The keen vision at infrared wavelengths of two of Webb’s instruments — MIRI and NIRCam — allowed astronomers to see right through the gargantuan clouds of dust in NGC 5068 and capture the processes of star formation as they happened. This image combines the capabilities of these two instruments, providing a truly unique look at the composition of NGC 5068.You can learn more about this image here.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2305cCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Pan: Hubble explores explosive aftermath in NGC 298 HubbleWebbESA 2023-06-02 | The spiral galaxy NGC 298 basks in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 298 lies around 89 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, and appears isolated in this image — only a handful of distant galaxies and foreground stars accompany the lonely galaxy. While NGC 298 seems peaceful, in 1986 it was host to one of astronomy's most extreme events: a catastrophic stellar explosion known as a Type II supernova.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2322aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Ghostly galactic jellyfish HubbleWebbESA 2023-05-09 | The jellyfish galaxy JO175 appears to hang suspended in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 650 million light-years from Earth in the appropriately-named constellation Telescopium, and was captured in crystal-clear detail by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. A handful of more distant galaxies are lurking throughout the scene, and a bright four-pointed star lies to the lower right side.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2318aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: The cluster that almost got away HubbleWebbESA 2023-05-02 | A menagerie of interesting astronomical finds fill this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As well as several large elliptical galaxies, a ring-shaped galaxy is lurking on the right of this image. A pair of bright stars are also visible at the left of this image, notable for their colourful criss-crossing diffraction spikes. This collection of astronomical curiosities is the galaxy cluster ACO S520 in the constellation Pictor, which was captured by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2317aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: A jellyfish and the ram HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | Here we see JO204, a ‘jellyfish galaxy’ so named for the bright tendrils of gas that appear in this image to be drifting lazily below JO204’s bright central bulk. The galaxy lies almost 600 million light-years away in the constellation Sextans. This image was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it is the third of a series of Pictures of the Week featuring jellyfish galaxies.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2315aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan of NGC 1333 HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | Astronomers are celebrating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and is located approximately 960 light-years away.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2304cCredit:NASA, ESA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Mylonite – Breath of my Soul
Zoom into NGC 1333 HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | Astronomers are celebrating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and is located approximately 960 light-years away.This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to NGC 1333.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2304dCredit:NASA, ESA, STScI, KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker (NOIRLab), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble) Music: Tonelabs – Happy Hubble (http://www.tonelabs.com)
Space Sparks Episode 18: Hubble celebrates its 33rd anniversary HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | Astronomers are celebrating the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2304aCredit:Directed by: Bethany Downer Editing: Nico Bartmann Web and technical support: Enciso Systems Written by: Bethany Downer Music: Noizefield - Expect the Unexpected Footage and photos: NASA, ESA, STScI, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen
Space Sparks Episode 17: Hubble’s eye on Jupiter HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | This year the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope marks its 33rd year of science operations. Hubble has revolutionised astronomy with its detailed observations of distant stars and galaxies. The telescope has given us insights into the deep Universe, from exoplanets, black holes and the Hubble Deep Fields, to the science of cosmology and the expansion of the Universe. Hubble has also been invaluable for studying objects closer to home. We have gained a new understanding of the outer Solar System planets since its launch, not least our most massive neighbour, Jupiter.This video highlights Hubble’s contributions to the study of Jupiter, and as the space telescope enters its 34th year of science operations, the European Space Agency has this April launched a new mission to the giant planet — the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2304bCredit:Directed by: Bethany Downer Editing: Nico Bartmann Web and technical support: Enciso Systems Written by: Owen Higgins Music: Tonelabs – Happy Hubble (http://www.tonelabs.com) Footage and photos: NASA, ESA, STScI, M. Kornmesser, L. L. Christensen, and N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble), H. Hammel, F. Summers and J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong and I. dePater (University of California, Berkeley), L. Roth (Southwest Research Institute and University of Cologne, Germany), J. Saur (University of Cologne, Germany), K. Retherford (Southwest Research Institute), D. Strobel and P. Feldman (Johns Hopkins University), M. McGrath (Marshall Space Flight Center), F. Nimmo (University of California, Santa Cruz), G. Orton (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Rogers (University of Cambridge), R. Beebe (New Mexico State University), J. Nichols, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, Goddard Space Flight Center, the OPAL team, and ATG medialab
Pan: Hubble spotlights a swirling spiral HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-20 | The barred spiral galaxy UGC 678 takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The spectacular galaxy lies around 260 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces and is almost face on, allowing its lazily winding spiral arms to stretch across this image. In the foreground, a smaller edge-on galaxy seems to bisect the upper portion of UGC 678.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2316aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick, R. J. Foley Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan of Cassiopeia A HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-07 | Cassiopeia A (Cas A) is a supernova remnant located about 11 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.On the remnant’s exterior, particularly at the top and left, lie curtains of material appearing orange and red that are due to emission from warm dust. This marks where ejected material from the exploded star is ramming into surrounding circumstellar material. Interior to this outer shell lie mottled filaments of bright pink studded with clumps and knots. This represents material from the star itself, and likely shines by the light produced by a mix of heavy elements and dust emission. The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.A loop represented in green extends across the right side of the central cavity. Its shape and complexity are unexpected and challenging for scientists to understand.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2311aCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), M. Zimani (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Zoom Into Cassiopeia A HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-07 | This video takes the viewer on a journey to Cassiopeia A (Cas A), a supernova remnant located about 11 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. It spans approximately 10 light-years. This new image uses data from Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) to reveal Cas A in a new light.On the remnant’s exterior, particularly at the top and left, lie curtains of material appearing orange and red that are due to emission from warm dust. This marks where ejected material from the exploded star is ramming into surrounding circumstellar material. Interior to this outer shell lie mottled filaments of bright pink studded with clumps and knots. This represents material from the star itself, and likely shines by the light produced by a mix of heavy elements and dust emission. The stellar material can also be seen as fainter wisps near the cavity’s interior.A loop represented in green extends across the right side of the central cavity. Its shape and complexity are unexpected and challenging for scientists to understand.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2311bCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University), T. Temim (Princeton University), I. De Looze (UGent), J. DePasquale (STScI), ESA/Hubble, ESA/Webb, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), M. Zimani (ESA/Webb) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Webb shares new image of Uranus HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-06 | The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning image of the Solar System’s other ice giant, the planet Uranus. The new image features dramatic rings as well as bright features in the planet’s atmosphere. The new Webb data of Uranus offer exquisite sensitivity, revealing the faintest dusty rings.The seventh planet from the Sun, Uranus is strange: it rotates on its side, at a nearly 90-degree angle from the plane of its orbit. This causes unusual seasons since the planet’s poles experience 42 years of constant sunlight and 42 years of complete darkness (Uranus takes 84 years to orbit the Sun). Currently, it is late spring at the northern pole, which is on the right side of this image; Uranus’s northern summer will be in 2028.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2310aCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann Music: Stellardrone – The Belt of Orion
Pan: Aftermath of a cosmic explosion HubbleWebbESA 2023-04-06 | The somewhat amorphous spiral galaxy UGC 2890 appears side-on in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with bright foreground stars studding the image. This galaxy lies around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis. In 2009 astronomers spotted a catastrophically powerful supernova explosion in UGC 2890. While the supernova itself has long since faded from view, Hubble recently took a break from its regular observing schedule to inspect the aftermath of this explosive event.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2314aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Everything, in one place, all at once HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-30 | This luminous Picture of the Week shows Z 229-15 — imaged here in beautiful detail by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — a celestial object that lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Z 229-15 is one of those interesting celestial objects that, should you choose to research it, you will find defined as several different things. sometimes as an active galactic nucleus; sometimes as a quasar; and sometimes as a Seyfert galaxy.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2313aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Barth, R. Mushotzky Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Zoom into the cosmic seahorse HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-28 | This video takes a viewer on a journey through space to the latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month, the cosmic seahorse.Streaks of light and bright arcs betray the presence of a vast gravitational lens in this image. A galaxy cluster in the foreground has magnified distant galaxies, warping their shapes and creating the bright smears of light spread throughout this image. This effect, referred to by astronomers as gravitational lensing, occurs when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime for light to be visibly bent around it, as if by a gargantuan lens.One of the consequential effects of gravitational lensing is that it can magnify distant astronomical objects, letting astronomers study objects that would otherwise be too faint or far away. This useful quirk of gravitational lensing has also been used to reveal some of the most distant galaxies humanity has ever encountered. The long, bright, and distorted arc spreading out near the core is one such example. A distant galaxy known as the Cosmic Seahorse, its brightness is greatly magnified by the gravitational lens, which has enabled astronomers to study star formation there.This image was captured by NIRCam, Webb’s primary near-infrared camera, and contains the lensing galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2149. It lies at a distance of around 6.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation Coma Berenices. By combining Webb’s sensitivity with the magnifying effect of gravitational lensing, astronomers were able to use this gravitational lens to explore the earliest stages of star formation in distant galaxies. To do so, they relied on earlier studies by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which provided the ‘prescription’ for this gravitational lens. This image shows only one observation from a programme designed to probe star formation in distant galaxies. As well as revealing how quickly stars form and characterising the environments in these galaxies that gave rise to new stars, these observations will demonstrate the capabilities of Webb and provide richly detailed datasets to the astronomical community. Astronomers expect Webb’s crystal-clear vision and cutting-edge instruments to provide new insights into star formation in distant, gravitationally lensed galaxies.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2303bCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Pan of cosmic seahorse HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-28 | Streaks of light and bright arcs betray the presence of a vast gravitational lens in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. A galaxy cluster in the foreground has magnified distant galaxies, warping their shapes and creating the bright smears of light spread throughout this image. This effect, referred to by astronomers as gravitational lensing, occurs when a massive celestial object such as a galaxy cluster causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime for light to be visibly bent around it, as if by a gargantuan lens.One of the consequential effects of gravitational lensing is that it can magnify distant astronomical objects, letting astronomers study objects that would otherwise be too faint or far away. This useful quirk of gravitational lensing has also been used to reveal some of the most distant galaxies humanity has ever encountered. The long, bright, and distorted arc spreading out near the core is one such example. A distant galaxy known as the Cosmic Seahorse, its brightness is greatly magnified by the gravitational lens, which has enabled astronomers to study star formation there.This image was captured by NIRCam, Webb’s primary near-infrared camera, and contains the lensing galaxy cluster SDSS J1226+2149. It lies at a distance of around 6.3 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation Coma Berenices. By combining Webb’s sensitivity with the magnifying effect of gravitational lensing, astronomers were able to use this gravitational lens to explore the earliest stages of star formation in distant galaxies. To do so, they relied on earlier studies by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, which provided the ‘prescription’ for this gravitational lens. This image shows only one observation from a programme designed to probe star formation in distant galaxies. As well as revealing how quickly stars form and characterising the environments in these galaxies that gave rise to new stars, these observations will demonstrate the capabilities of Webb and provide richly detailed datasets to the astronomical community. Astronomers expect Webb’s crystal-clear vision and cutting-edge instruments to provide new insights into star formation in distant, gravitationally lensed galaxies.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2303aCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Rigby Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Hubble’s new views of Jupiter and Uranus HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-23 | This video showcases Hubble’s observations of Jupiter and Uranus.The outer planets beyond Mars do not have solid surfaces to affect weather as on Earth. And sunlight is much less able to drive atmospheric circulation. Nevertheless, these are ever-changing worlds. And Hubble — in its role as interplanetary meteorologist — is keeping track, as it does every year. Jupiter’s weather is driven from the inside out, as more heat percolates up from its interior than it receives from the Sun. This heat indirectly drives colour-change cycles in the clouds, like the cycle that’s currently highlighting a system of alternating cyclones and anticyclones. Uranus has seasons that pass by at a snail’s pace because it takes 84 years to complete one orbit about the Sun. But those seasons are extreme, because Uranus is tipped on its side. As summer approaches in the northern hemisphere, Hubble sees a growing polar cap of high-altitude photochemical haze that looks similar to the smog over cities on Earth.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2303aCredit:NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), M. H. Wong (UC Berkeley), J. DePasquale (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Pan: Portrait of a galactic jellyfish HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-23 | The galaxy JW100 features prominently in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with streams of star-forming gas dripping from the disc of the galaxy like streaks of fresh paint. These tendrils of bright gas are formed by a process called ram pressure stripping, and their resemblance to dangling tentacles has led astronomers to refer to JW100 as a ‘jellyfish’ galaxy. It is located in the constellation Pegasus, over 800 million light-years away.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2312aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP team Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Hubble spies a meandering spiral HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-23 | The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The tenuous disc of the galaxy is threaded through with pink wisps of star formation, which stand out from the diffuse glow of the galaxy’s bright core. NGC 5486 lies 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2310aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan: Hubble’s neighbourhood watch HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-23 | UGCA 307 hangs against an irregular backdrop of distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The small galaxy consists of a diffuse band of stars containing red bubbles of gas that mark regions of recent star formation, and lies roughly 26 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Corvus. Appearing as just a small patch of stars, UGCA 307 is a diminutive dwarf galaxy without a defined structure — resembling nothing more than a hazy patch of passing cloud.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2311aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Tully Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Space Sparks Episode 10: Wolf-Rayet 124 - A Star in Transition HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-14 | A Wolf-Rayet star is a rare prelude to the famous final act of a massive star: the supernova. As one of its first observations in 2022, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured the Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in unprecedented detail. Learn more in this Space Sparks episode.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2307aCredit:Directed by: Bethany Downer Editing: Nico Bartmann Web and technical support: Enciso Systems Written by: Bethany Downer Music: Stellardrone - The Belt of Orion Footage and photos: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, DSS, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)
Zoom Into Wolf-Rayet 124 HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-14 | This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to one of Webb’s first observations in 2022, the Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, seen here in unprecedented detail.Despite being the scene of an impending stellar ‘death’, astronomers also look to Wolf-Rayet stars for insights into new beginnings. Cosmic dust is forming in the turbulent nebulas surrounding these stars, dust that is composed of the heavy-element building blocks of the modern Universe, including life on Earth.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2307bCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, DSS, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Pan of Wolf-Rayet 124 HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-14 | This features one of Webb’s first observations in 2022, the Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in unprecedented detail.Despite being the scene of an impending stellar ‘death’, astronomers also look to Wolf-Rayet stars for insights into new beginnings. Cosmic dust is forming in the turbulent nebulas surrounding these stars, dust that is composed of the heavy-element building blocks of the modern universe, including life on Earth.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2307cCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Zoom: Galactic Seascape HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-03 | A jellyfish galaxy with trailing tentacles of stars hangs in inky blackness in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. As Jellyfish galaxies move through intergalactic space they are slowly stripped of gas, which trails behind the galaxy in tendrils illuminated by clumps of star formation. These blue tendrils are visible drifting below the core of this galaxy, and give it its jellyfish-like appearance. This particular jellyfish galaxy — known as JO201 — lies in the constellation Cetus, which is named after a sea monster from ancient Greek mythology.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2309aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Gullieuszik and the GASP teamMusic: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
heic2302a HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-01 | More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2302aCredit:NASA & ESA
Hubble Captures Movie of DART Asteroid Impact Debris HubbleWebbESA 2023-03-01 | This movie captures the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA’s 545-kilogram Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft on 26 September 2022. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope had a ringside view of the space demolition derby.The Hubble movie starts at 1.3 hours before impact. The first post-impact snapshot is 20 minutes after the event. Debris flies away from the asteroid in straight lines, moving faster than four miles per hour (fast enough to escape the asteroid’s gravitational pull, so it does not fall back onto the asteroid). The ejecta forms a largely hollow cone with long, stringy filaments.At about 17 hours after the impact the debris pattern entered a second stage. The dynamic interaction within the binary system started to distort the cone shape of the ejecta pattern. The most prominent structures are rotating, pinwheel-shaped features. The pinwheel is tied to the gravitational pull of the companion asteroid, Didymos.Hubble next captures the debris being swept back into a comet-like tail by the pressure of sunlight on the tiny dust particles. This stretches out into a debris train where the lightest particles travel the fastest and farthest from the asteroid. The mystery is compounded later when Hubble records the tail splitting in two for a few days.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/heic2302aCredit:NASA, ESA, J. Li (PSI), J. DePasquale (STScI)
Pan: Seeing Triple HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-28 | This video from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy, which you can see in closer detail here. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light travelling past or through it, almost like a vast lens. In this case, the lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located around 3.2 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2302aCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Kelly Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Zoom: Seeing Triple HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-28 | This video from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope takes the viewer on a journey through space to the location of the massive galaxy cluster RX J2129. Due to Gravitational lensing, this observation contains three different images of the same supernova-hosting galaxy, which you can see in closer detail here. Gravitational lensing occurs when a massive celestial body causes a sufficient curvature of spacetime to bend the path of light travelling past or through it, almost like a vast lens. In this case, the lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located around 3.2 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2302bCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Kelly, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin (ESA/Webb), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Cosmic Contortions HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-24 | A massive galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus dominates the centre of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This image is populated with a serene collection of elliptical and spiral galaxies, but galaxies surrounding the central cluster — which is named SPT-CL J0019-2026 — appear stretched into bright arcs, as if distorted by a gargantuan magnifying glass. This cosmic contortion is called gravitational lensing, and it occurs when a massive object like a galaxy cluster has a sufficiently powerful gravitational field to distort and magnify the light from background objects.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2308aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, H. Ebeling Music: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Webb Explores the PHANGS Galaxies HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-16 | Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope are getting their first look at star formation, gas, and dust in nearby galaxies with unprecedented resolution at infrared wavelengths. The largest survey of nearby galaxies in Webb’s first year of science operations is being carried out by the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) collaboration, involving more than 100 researchers from around the globe. The team is studying a diverse sample of 19 spiral galaxies, and in Webb’s first few months of science operations, observations have been made of five of those targets, which are featured in this video. These galaxies are M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2306aCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, and J. Lee (NOIRLab), A. Pagan (STScI), the PHANGS-JWST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone – The Night Sky in Motion
Can You Spot It? HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-15 | Right in the middle of this image, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies, lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II. If you cannot quite distinguish the clump of faint stars that is all we can see of Donatiello II in this image, then you are in good company. Donatiello II is one of three newly discovered galaxies that were so difficult to spot that they were all missed by an algorithm designed to search astronomical data for potential galaxy candidates. Even the best algorithms have their limitations when it comes to distinguishing very faint galaxies from individual stars and background noise. In these most challenging identification cases, discovery has to be done the old-fashioned way — by a dedicated human trawling through the data themselves. More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2306aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Mutlu-Pakdil Acknowledgement: G. Donatiello
Galactic Crash Course HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-15 | A spectacular trio of merging galaxies in the constellation Boötes takes centre stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. These three galaxies, known to astronomers as SDSSCGB 10189, are set on a collision course and will eventually merge into a single larger galaxy, distorting one another’s spiral structure through mutual gravitational interaction in the process. An unrelated foreground galaxy appears to float serenely alongside the collision, and the smudged shapes of much more distant galaxies are visible in the background.More information and download options: http://esahubble.org/videos/potw2307aCredit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. SunMusic: Stellardrone - Billions and Billions
Pan of Pandora’s Cluster HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-15 | Astronomers estimate 50 000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has travelled through various distances to reach the telescope’s detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image centre, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a mega cluster. The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating a natural, super-magnifying glass called a 'gravitational lens' that astronomers can use to see very distant sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetectable, even to Webb.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2305aCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), R. Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), A. Pagan (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) Music: Stellardrone – Twilight
Zoom Into Pandora’s Cluster HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-15 | Astronomers estimate 50 000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their light has travelled through various distances to reach the telescope’s detectors, representing the vastness of space in a single image. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image centre, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a mega cluster. The concentration of mass is so great that the fabric of spacetime is warped by gravity, creating a natural, super-magnifying glass called a 'gravitational lens' that astronomers can use to see very distant sources of light beyond the cluster that would otherwise be undetectable, even to Webb.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/weic2305bCredit:NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), R. Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), A. Pagan (STScI). Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, N. Bartmann, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin, M. Zamani Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
Zoom: A Spiral Amongst Thousands HubbleWebbESA 2023-02-09 | This video takes the viewers on a journey into the field of stars and galaxies surrounding the spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648. Webb’s NIRCam instrument has picked out a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies and bright stars around this galaxy, demonstrating the telescope’s impressive resolution in infrared wavelengths. Calibration images such as this one were critical to verify the telescope’s capabilities as it was prepared for science operations, and this one doesn’t disappoint.More information and download options: http://esawebb.org/videos/potm2301bCredit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
