Hubble Observation of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole: This Hubble Space Telescope image identified the location of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), weighing over 50 000 times the mass of our Sun (making it much smaller than the supermassive black holes found in the centres of galaxies). The black hole, named 3XMM J215022.4−055108, is indicated by the white circle. This elusive type of black hole was first identified via a telltale burst of X-rays emitted by hot gas from a star as it was captured and destroyed by the black hole. Hubble was needed to pinpoint the black hole’s location in visible light. Hubble’s deep, high-resolution imaging shows that the black hole resides inside a dense cluster of stars that is far beyond our Milky Way galaxy. The star cluster is in the vicinity of the galaxy at the centre of the image. Much smaller images of distant background galaxies appear sprinkled around the image, including a face-on spiral just above the central foreground galaxy. This photo was taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Name: 3XMM J215022.4−055108
Type: Early Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole
Category: Quasars and Black Holes
Constellation: Aquarius
Release date: 31 March 2020, 19:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Lin (University of New Hampshire)

Ground-Based View of J2150−0551 Region: Wide-field image around the field of J2150−0551 (ground-based view), in which an intermediate-mass black hole named 3XMM J215022.4−055108 has been detected.

Name: 3XMM J215022.4−055108
Type: Early Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole
Category: Quasars and Black Holes
Constellation: Aquarius
Release date: 31 March 2020, 19:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Visualisation of Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut b (Artist’s Impression): Data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an expanding cloud of dust produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright nearby star Fomalhaut. This is the first time such a catastrophic event around another star has been imaged.

Name: Fomalhaut b
Type: Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category: Exoplanets
Distance: 25 light years
Release date: 20 April 2020, 21:00
Credit: ESA/NASA, M. Kornmesser

Illustration of Hubble’s Observation of Fomalhaut b’s Expanding Dust Cloud: Illustration from the Hubble Space Telescope’s observations of Fomalhaut b’s expanding dust cloud from 2004 to 2013. The cloud was produced in a collision between two large bodies orbiting the bright nearby star Fomalhaut. This is the first time such a catastrophic event around another star has been imaged.

Name: Fomalhaut b
Type: Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Planetary System
Category: Exoplanets
Distance: 25 light years
Release date: 20 April 2020, 21:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Gáspár and G. Rieke (University of Arizona)

Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth: This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away.

Name: NGC 2014, NGC 2020
Type: Local Universe : Nebula
Category: AnniversaryNebulae
Constellation: Dorado
Release date: 24 April 2020, 13:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth: This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away.

Name: NGC 2014, NGC 2020
Type: Local Universe : Nebula
Category: AnniversaryNebulae
Constellation: Dorado
Release date: 24 April 2020, 13:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

Wide-field view of NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (Ground-based Image): This wide-field view captures the pair of nebulae NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 in the constellation of Dorado (The Swordfish). These two glowing clouds of gas, in the centre of the frame, are located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies. Both are sculpted by powerful winds from hot young stars. This view was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.

Name: NGC 2014, NGC 2020
Type: Local Universe : Nebula
Category: AnniversaryNebulae
Constellation: Dorado
Release date: 24 April 2020, 13:00
Credit: ESA/Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin

Hubble’s New Observations of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS): The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the comet on 20 April and 25 pieces on 23 April. The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) and its fragmentation was confirmed in April 2020.

Type: Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Comet
Category: Solar System
Release date: 28 April 2020, 19:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)

Hubble’s Observation of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on 20 April: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 30 fragments of the comet on 20 April. The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) and its fragmentation was confirmed in April 2020.

Name: C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
Type: Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Comet
Category: Solar System
Release date: 28 April 2020, 19:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)

Hubble’s Observation of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on 23 April: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided astronomers with the sharpest view yet of the breakup of Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS). The telescope resolved roughly 25 fragments of the comet on 23 April. The comet was first discovered in December 2019 by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) and its fragmentation was confirmed in April 2020.

Name: C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)
Type: Solar System : Interplanetary Body : Comet
Category: Solar System
Release date: 28 April 2020, 19:00
Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Jewitt (UCLA), Q. Ye (University of Maryland)