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On April 24, 1990, the Space Shuttle Discovery launched, carrying the Hubble Space Telescope (or just "Hubble"). This orbiting telescope was the first of NASA's Great Observatories. For ...
A rare white dwarf merger remnant emerges in ultraviolet light, revealing thin layers of hydrogen and helium stripped away ...
The Hubble became the world’s most famous telescope, enjoyed four more repair visits and is still a workhorse, in demand by astronomers. Today we know there are at least 100 billion galaxies.
Hubble space telescope is being photobombed, study finds SpaceX largely to blame, as more and more images of the cosmos feature an artificial satellite in the shot By Chris Knight Published Mar ...
James Webb Space Telescope revisits a classic Hubble image of over 2,500 galaxies Where is it? Both NGC 456 and NGC 460 are found in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the ...
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope is finding bright, early galaxies that until now were hidden from view, including one that may have formed a mere 350 million years after the cosmic-creating Big Bang.
This new eye in the sky is a completely new instrument from its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope. Other than the fact that both telescopes use curved mirrors to capture the light from the ...
An international team of scientists recently released the largest near-infrared image ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, enabling astronomers to map the star-forming regions of the ...