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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.

Goddard Space Flight Center nasa.gov/mission_pages/… Joined March 2008

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Hubble @NASAHubble 2d

Hubble (along with ground-based telescopes) revealed that the expansion rate of our universe is accelerating!

Soon, @NASARoman will study the “dark energy” behind this expansion with its large field of view and infrared vision.

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Hubble @NASAHubble 3d

Cosmic pixie dust 🪄

This new Hubble image shows M30, which is a globular cluster – a roughly spherical collection of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.

Find out more: go.nasa.gov/4iEHI4Q

A star cluster seen up close, filling the view with thousands of stars. They are clearly divided between blue ones, which are scattered around the outskirts of the image but more towards the center and are the majority in the bright core of the cluster, and yellow stars, which are present in the core but make up most of the cluster outside of that. A few orange stars are closer to us and appear noticeably larger.

Hubble @NASAHubble 3d

📍IRAS 05437+2502
🏠 Constellation Taurus
🌈 Visible & near-infrared light

As a “snapshot” observation, this image of a cosmic site full of dark clouds and bright stars was slotted into Hubble's busy schedule as a way to maximize efficiency: go.nasa.gov/4z4WBTX

Against black space, several bright white stars shine, illuminating shadowy clouds of dust, mostly visible in the lower left of the image.

Hubble @NASAHubble 5d

The ultimate group project: studying worlds beyond our own.

As we get closer to the first images from @NASARoman, a long list of science objectives await.

One way Roman will team up with Hubble is by the different ways the missions will study exoplanets. ⬇️

A collage of artistic renderings of differently colored exoplanets in rows, against a black background. In the lower left, faint text reads "Artist's Concept".

Hubble @NASAHubble 6d

Where's the oxygen?

After researchers studied nearby dwarf galaxies, they realized much of the oxygen they expected to see was missing.

Galactic winds from supernova explosions are apparently more effective at removing oxygen than current models predict: go.nasa.gov/3U6N5Sc

Clumpy, irregular, cloud-like dwarf galaxy in a roughly rectangular shape is speckled with small, bright, blue points of light and larger, light pink patches throughout. Dark brown and milky white areas are also smudged throughout the center of the galaxy. The galaxy appears against a mostly black background lightly dotted with tiny white, blue, and red stars, and galaxies.