NASA's Hubble Space Telescope creates largest photomosaic ever made of "train wreck" Andromeda galaxy with over 2.5 billion pixels
The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
NASA's Hubble traces hidden history of Andromeda galaxy
In the years following the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have tallied over 1 trillion galaxies in the universe. But only one galaxy stands out as the most important nearby ...
Webb telescope just solved the 'universe-breaking problem'
The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into ...
A rare look at NASA’s next sharp-eyed space telescope
The assembly of the telescope ramped up this autumn, with 600 workers aiming to get everything integrated and tested by late ...
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Roman Space Telescope Wide Field Instrument Poster
The Wide-Field Instrument (WFI), the primary instrument aboard NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, is a 300-megapixel ...
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Hawaii Has The Largest Reflector Telescope In The US But It's Not Run By Who You Think
Giant ground-based reflector telescopes do much of astronomy's heavy lifting, although the U.S.'s largest in Hawaii is not ...
44 Hidden Stars Revealed: Gravitational Lensing Unlocks the Secrets of the Dragon Arc
In an astronomical feat, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers observed a distant galaxy, uncovering ...
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Astronomers discover interstellar processes that drive galactic evolution
The circumgalactic medium (CGM), a diffuse gaseous halo surrounding galaxies, plays a critical role in their evolution.