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Hubble witnesses spectacular flaring in extragalactic jet from M87's black hole
— 15 Apr 2009 03:27 GMTHubble astronomers have watched a knot in the jet of gas and radiation from M87's black hole that appears to brighten steadily for several years, then fade, only to brighten again.... — watch video
Dramatically backlit dust in giant galaxy
— 7 Apr 2009 15:03 GMTZooming in on NGC 7049, a mysterious looking galaxy with globular clusters dotted throughout its halo (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser and L. L. Christensen)... — watch video
Erratic black hole regulates itself
— 25 Mar 2009 18:00 GMTThis animation shows how radio jets may be suppressed in the micro- quasar GRS 1915. Material is being pulled from a red companion star into a black hole via a blue, rapidly rotating... — watch video
Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble
— 19 Mar 2009 14:12 GMTThis Hubble animation shows four of Saturn's moons as they circled their parent planet on 24 February 2009 (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser and L. L. Christensen)... — watch video
Exceptionally deep view of strange galaxy
— 7 Feb 2009 12:06 GMTZooming into NGC 4921, a spiral galaxy in the Coma Galaxy Cluster (c) ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser) and ESO (L. L. Christensen)... — watch video
Hubble telescope catches Ganymede going to the 'dark side'
— 18 Dec 2008 14:00 GMTThis movie shows Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, as it ducks behind the giant planet. Astronomers combined a series of images taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's... — watch video
Dark energy found stifling growth in Universe
— 17 Dec 2008 10:30 GMTThe simulation shows how the Universe has evolved from soon after the Big Bang to the present day. As the Universe expanded and cooled, matter began to clump together due to the effects... — watch video
Tycho Brahe's 1572 supernova classified
— 3 Dec 2008 18:00 GMTThis animation illustrates how a light echo works and how it can be used for time travel. A supernova explosion acts like a cosmic flashbulb. The wave of light from the explosion zips... — watch video
Fomalhaut b: The first directly observed exoplanet
— 13 Nov 2008 19:30 GMTThis artist's rendition shows a planet circling a star 16 times brighter than our sun. The planet is estimated to complete a full orbit around the star Fomalhaut in 872 years. For a... — watch video
'Naked eye' gamma-ray burst was aimed almost directly at the Earth
— 10 Sep 2008 17:00 GMTThis animation shows how astronomers think GRB 080319B erupted. A narrow, ultrafast jet punches through the star at nearly the speed of light, followed by a wider, less energetic jet... — watch video