Benjamin Williams
October 28, 2019
Hubble captures galaxies’ ghostly gaze
![An image of a galaxy in outer space](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/10/17150848/AM-Halloween-image-10-2-19_web-150x150.jpg)
An image captured earlier this year by the Hubble Space Telescope may look like a ghostly apparition, but it is not. Hubble is looking at a titanic head-on collision between two galaxies.
January 8, 2019
Triangulum Galaxy shows stunning face in detailed Hubble portrait
![An image of a nearby galaxy called M33.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/01/08104108/galaxy-TILE-150x150.jpg)
As part of a University of Washington-led project, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a stunningly detailed portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, displaying a full spiral face aglow with the light of nearly 25 million individually resolved stars.
February 12, 2016
Caught in the act: UW astronomers find a rare supernova ‘impostor’ in a nearby galaxy
![The galaxy NGC 300](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/07/04165835/NGC_300-galaxy-TILE-150x150.jpg)
UW astronomers Breanna Binder and Ben Williams have identified a rare type of ‘supernova impostor’ in a nearby galaxy, with implications for how scientists look at the short, complex lives of massive stars.