For the past 25 years, Hubble has captured our deepest views of the Universe, unveiling galaxies never before seen.
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), the deepest view of the distant Universe ever taken. Image... [+]
By viewing an otherwise blank patch of the sky for hours, days or even weeks, it's revealed the faint, distant Universe like never before.
The infrared portion of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, taken by the NICMOS instrument. Image credit:... [+]
Hubble can only expose visible and near-infrared light; it can only see stars. But there's much more to the Universe.
A Hubble/Spitzer composite image of galaxy cluster SpARCS1049+56 shows how a gas-rich merger... [+]
Most of the normal matter in the Universe is present in the forms of plasma and neutral gas, not stars.
Emission from carbon monoxide as seen in red, in the dwarf galaxy NGC 5253, reveals a bright cloud... [+]
Although Hubble cannot see this gas, it emits light nonetheless, just at longer (radio) wavelengths.
A gas-rich galaxy (orange) as seen prominently against the galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field... [+]
For the first time, an ultra-deep radio telescope has caught it, showing us these cold, raw materials needed for star formation.
The Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, as photographed with the Magellanic clouds... [+]
Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) surveyed the same dark patch of sky as Hubble, most sensitive to the radio signal of molecular carbon monoxide (CO).
As expected, younger, more distant galaxies have more gas to go along with fewer stars.
A trove of galaxies, rich in dust and cold gas (indicating star-forming potential) was imaged by... [+]
The biggest takeaway? The galaxies found closest to the Big Bang are the most gas-rich.
Looking back through cosmic time in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, ALMA traced the presence of carbon... [+]
Star formation peaks after just three billion years, as the gas gets depleted.
Mostly Mute Monday tells a story about an astronomical phenomenon in pictures, video, and no more than 200 words every week here on Starts With A Bang.
