...(July 2024): This text was updated to correct an attribution. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA Source: ESA/Hubble

...to us after the Sun — it would still appear as bright as the Sun in the sky.   WFPC2 was installed on Hubble during shuttle mission STS-61. It is the size of a small piano and was capable of seeing images in the visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum. Editor's note ...

... making them some of the most luminous and energetic objects in the entire Universe. Of these very bright objects, 3C 273 is the brightest in our skies. If it was located 30 light-years from our own planet — roughly seven times the distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star ...

... — have been observed to fire off super-fast jets into the surrounding space. In this picture, one of these jets appears as a cloudy streak, measuring some 200 000 light-years in length. Quasars are capable of emitting hundreds or even thousands of times the entire energy output of our galaxy,...

...ellar radio source”, as they appear to be star-like on the sky. In fact, quasars are the intensely powerful centres of distant, active galaxies, powered by a huge disc of particles surrounding a supermassive black hole. As material from this disc falls inwards, some quasars — including 3C 273 ...

...as taken some 2.5 billion years to reach us. Despite this great distance, it is still one of the closest quasars to our home. It was the first quasar ever to be identified, by astronomers Maarten Schmidt and Bev Oke in the early 1960s. The term quasar is an abbreviation of the phrase “quasi-st...

Best image of bright quasar 3C 273 Image date: 18 November 2013, 10:00 This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Its light h...

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...ponsible for pushing this material away from the comet, creating a tail that always points away from the Sun, regardless of the comet's direction of travel.

The solar wind plays a crucial role in shaping the tails of comets. As a comet approaches the Sun, the solar wind, a stream of charged particles from the Sun, interacts with the comet's nucleus. This interaction strips away gas and dust, forming the comet's distinctive tail. The solar wind is res...

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Credit: NASA/ESA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

ESA/Hubble (@esa.int) images (Sep 9, 2003) This ultraviolet image from Hubble reveals Saturn's Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings, showcasing the planet's seasonal tilt. esahubble.org/images/opo0323b/

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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