Comet NEOWISE Comes into Focus for a Close-up
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning close-up image of comet NEOWISE, which recently captured the public’s imagination becoming ...
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A look back at Hubble’s history in honor of its 30th anniversary
The story of the most prolific space telescope in history.
NASA tries to fix Hubble problem by switching it off and on again
Hi, have you tried switching it off and on again?
Two dwarf-galaxies have left the wilderness to join a galactic party
Drawn by gravity, a dwarf galaxy pair is leaving the void for a more crowded region of the universe.
Universe at your fingertips – 3D prints of Hubble photos let the blind ‘see’
NGC 609 is one of the many small galactic star clusters located in the Milky Way ...
Hubble goes farther than ever before: images reveal deepest view of the Universe yet
Abell 2744, Pandora's Cluster. Photo: : NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, and ...
Rapidly rotating asteroid blazes with six tails trailing
This oddball cosmic body, called P/2013 P5, has puzzled astronomers for a while. By mass and orbit, it can only ...
NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe
These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part ...
The stars of the densest galaxy discovered thus far are 25 times closer than in Milky Way
This galaxy weighs more than 200 million suns, over half of which is concentrated within a ...
“Ring Nebula” imaged in stunning never before seen 3-D detail
Not too long ago, the Ring nebula was thought to be shaped like a sphere. New ...
Extremely rare double Einstein ring imaged by Hubble
(c) NASA/ESA Hubble just never ceases to surprise. The latest astronomical find discovered using the ever ...
Farthest supernova discovered by Hubble helps unravel Universe secrets
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have come across the farthest supernova of its type found thus far - a type Ia ...
“Eye of Sauron” star hosts rogue planet
Back in 2008, Hubble released a stunning image of a very bright star called Fomalhaut which spanned a huge disk of ...
Amazing high energy, relativistic plasma jets coming out of the Hercules A Galaxy
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... at about 2 billion light years away from Earth lies ...
Hubble stares into the dawn of the Universe – sets another record for oldest galaxy
Using the evergreen Hubble telescope, astronomers from NASA have been able to uncover a previously unseen population of ancient galaxies, ...
Farthest known object in the Universe is 13.3 billion years old
The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a ...
Hubble takes brilliant picture of young star population in elderly company
The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center ...
Oldest spiral galaxy is a freak of cosmos
Artist's rendering of the oldest known spiral galaxy - 11 billion years old. The red area ...
Oldest galaxy discovered so far in the Universe is 12.91 billion years old
[caption id="attachment_13204" align="alignright" width="384" caption="Colour composite image of the Subaru XMM-Newton deep survey field. In the right panel, the red ...
Two military spy telescopes, just as big and powerful as Hubble, donated to NASA
[caption id="attachment_13101" align="alignright" width="300" caption="The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying Servicing Mission 4 ...