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When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...
Galaxy merger Arp-Madore 417-391 is on display in this new image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for ...
The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...
Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images than telescopes on the ground. Hubble has made more than 1.6 million observations over the course of its lifetime, NASA says .
There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...
Hubble captures forgotten globular cluster ESO 591-12 in rare detail ESO 591-12 sparkles with red and blue stars of varying ...
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious event that could reveal the existence of a “rogue planet” drifting through ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles (515 kilometers) above the planet, placing it above most of the atmosphere. Its orbit is inclined at 28.5 degrees to the equator and it ...
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 ...
Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.
Its color is actually caused by the effects of a 2,000 degree Fahrenheit (1,093 Celsius) atmosphere where rock-forming ...
What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...