Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309 is about 100 ...

In a spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 glows with cosmic elegance and hides a strange survivor.

This breathtaking Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 1309 reveals more than swirling stars and glowing dust—it holds a cosmic ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed image of the supernova-rich spiral galaxy NGC 1309, located 100 million ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope has clicked an attention to detail image of spiral galaxy NGC 1309. The European Space Agency ...

Meet NGC 1309: an idyllic spiral galaxy that is located about 100-million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus. Spanning around 30,000 light-years across, NGC 1309 is a nearly a ...

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It took about 50 ...

NGC 1309 has quite a few stars in it that are called Cepheid variables. These are massive, bright stars that pulsate in brightness on a regular schedule lasting a few days to months.

So when one appears in a nearby galaxy, like, say, NGC 1309, astronomers pounce on it. It’s bright, so they can get good data on it, and dissect it as much as possible. Advertisement ...

Fireworks and pinwheelsSometimes NASA gets it right, of course. Despite the foofooraw about political censorship inside of NASA, very fine work gets done by the agency. For example, that picture is ...

NGC 1309 was home to supernova SN 2002fk, whose light reached Earth in September 2002. NGC 1309 resides 100 million light-years (30 Megaparsecs) from Earth.