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NASA Hubble's top images showcase a forming protostar, Arctic sea ice patterns, a dying star's planetary nebula, the ancient globular cluster NGC 6496, and ghost light from stars in Pandora’s ...
The Cat’s Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, resembles the eerie eye of Sauron from *The Lord of ...
Thirty-five years ago today a revolutionary new era of astronomy began when the Hubble Space Telescope, tucked onboard the space shuttle Discovery, blasted off Earth into history. Within a month ...
In the vast expanse between Uranus and Neptune, a team of researchers have uncovered something really quite extraordinary, a ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, ... and is still vital for keeping track of goings-on in the atmospheres of the outer giant planets of our solar system.
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), ... The outer disc is darker with shades of brown and black.
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...
Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...
NASA launched Hubble’s successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, in 2021, although unlike Hubble, JWST is stationed so far beyond Earth’s orbit that crewed servicing missions are too daunting ...