Diffuse galaxy, NGC 1052-DF2, is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. The galaxy contains at most 1/400th the amount of dark matter that astronomers had expected! So, what's going on here? https://t.co/TYsNDGbmqq
#HubbleClassic As spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, so too come butterflies. In 2009 Hubble caught this cosmic butterfly 3,800 light-years away in Scorpius. Called NGC 6302, it's a planetary nebula, gas & dust expelled by a dying star: https://t.co/5thUj6d9N2
#HubbleFriday NGC 5714 is classified as an Sc spiral galaxy, but its spiral arms — the dominating feature of spiral galaxies — are almost impossible to see, as NGC 1787 presents itself at an almost perfectly edge-on angle: https://t.co/T69GMM2nbH