Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: This Star's Throwin' a Tantrum
<a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/38/image/b/">A. Fujii</a>01Nov1-7-02
A ground-based view of the Milky Way. Using Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have now conducted a "cosmic archaeological dig" of our Milky Way’s heart, uncovering the blueprints of our galaxy's early construction phase.
<a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/38/full/">NASA/ESA/A. Calamida and K. Sahu (STScI)/SWEEPS Science Team</a>02Nov1-7-03
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected for the first time a population of white dwarfs embedded in the hub of our Milky Way galaxy. The Hubble images are the deepest, most detailed study of the galaxy's central bulge of stars. This is a small section of Hubble's view of the dense collection of stars crammed together there.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/a-galaxy-at-the-center-of-the-hubble-tuning-fork">ESA/Hubble & NASA/N. Grogin (STScI, Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt</a>03At the centre of the tuning fork
Mrk 820 is a lenticular galaxy–type S0 on the Hubble Tuning Fork, which classifies galaxies according to their morphology. This galaxy is in transition between an elliptical galaxy (which looks like a dim, smooth blob) and a spiral galaxy (which looks like a bright, flat, rotating disc with arms). Mrk 820 has some features of both types, and is surrounded by many other different types of galaxies on the Hubble Tuning Fork.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-swift-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst">NASA/Swift/Phil Evans, University of Leicester</a>04Nov1-7-01
NASA's Swift spacecraft has detected its 1,000th gamma-ray burst (GRB). GRBs are the most powerful explosions in the universe, typically associated with the collapse of a massive star and the birth of a black hole. It’s a fleeting blast of high-energy light, often lasting a minute or less, occurring somewhere in the sky every couple of days. Scientists are looking for exceptional bursts that offer the deepest insights into the extreme physical processes at work. The burst, or center, is shown in this composite x-ray, ultraviolet and optical image.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/whopping-galaxy-cluster-spotted-with-help-of-nasa-telescopes">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Gemini/CARMA</a>05Nov1-7-05
This is the galaxy cluster MOO J1142+1527, a giant galaxy cluster located 8.5 billion light-years away. Scientists determine the cluster’s mass is a quadrillion times that of our sun---making it the most massive known cluster that far back in time and space.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/radar-images-provide-new-details-on-halloween-asteroid">NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR/NRAO/AUI/NSF</a>06Nov1-7-06
The highest-resolution radar images of asteroid 2015 TB145's safe flyby of Earth have been processed. NASA scientists used giant, Earth-based radio telescopes to bounce radar signals off the asteroid as it flew past Earth on Oct. 31 at 10 a.m. PDT, about 300,000 miles from Earth. The next time the asteroid will be in Earth's neighborhood will be in September 2018, when it will make a distant pass at about 24 million miles, or about a quarter the distance between Earth and the sun.
<a href="http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/04/growing-pains-cluster-protostars">B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF; A Plunkett et al.; ALMA, NRAO/ESO/NAOJ</a>07Nov1-7-07
The young protostar CARMA-7 as spotted by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array. The twin jets— each nearly 1.5 trillion kilometers long —have distinct gaps, revealing that it’s growing by fits and starts.
