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Like a scene out of a sci-fi movie, astronomers using NASA telescopes have found "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million ...
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NASA is closely monitoring SGR 0501+4516, a rare and exceptionally powerful magnetar with a magnetic field trillions of times ...
NASA has said the object - given the catchy name SGR 0501+4516 - has "comic-book-hero superpowers", including a magnetic ...
Superman will pit the Man of Tomorrow against the mysterious Ultraman, a formidable character who has spawned many fan theories and rumours. As we write this, the prevailing opinion seems to be ...
Later, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field was compiled from nearly a million seconds of exposure time between 2003 and 2004 in the constellation Fornax, capturing an estimated 10,000 galaxies that ...
Hubble has revealed that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field makes auroras on the giant planet particularly intense and long-lasting, unlike those on Earth. In July 1994, over 20 fragments of comet ...
"Every modern astronomy textbook includes contributions from Hubble." For 35 years ... the complex gravitational field of the intervening lensing galaxy caused the quasar's light to travel ...
Not a single planet had been seen around another star. Among its long list of breakthroughs: Hubble's deep field images unveiled myriad galaxies dating back to the early universe. The telescope ...
Some of Hubble's most iconic imagery, including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is attributed to the ACS. In 2007, however, it also suffered an electrical failure. Remedies for STIS and ACS were both ...