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Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...
Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.
Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...
Object Details Artist Unidentified Artist Sitter Edwin Powell Hubble, 20 Nov 1889 - 28 Sep 1953 Exhibition Label Born Marshfield, Missouri The famed Hubble Space Telescope takes its name from one of ...
Because of that massive temperature difference, scientists believe huge winds race around the planet, trying to even things out - kind of like how wind on Earth moves from hot to cold areas, just way ...
Footage from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that celebrates 35 years in space. Images of Mars, planetary nebula NGC 2899, Rosette Nebula and galaxy NGC 5335 to celebrate. Credit: NASA's Goddard ...
The observatory is equipped with a specially designed telescope and a car-sized digital camera – the largest of its kind in the world. Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place.
“A hundred years ago, Edwin Hubble started the race to the edge of the universe,” says Ray Villard, news director for the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which oversees both the Hubble ...
This stunning Hubble Space Telescope image is formed by light that began its journey 250 million years ago from the spiral galaxy UGC 11397 in the constellation Lyra (The Lyre). At first glance the ...
Each full image snapped by the observatory’s 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope and 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera would require 400 4K high-definition television screens to display at its original ...
Light enters the telescope from the night sky, hits the primary mirror (8.4m diameter), is reflected onto the secondary mirror (3.4m) back onto a third mirror (4.8m) before entering its camera.