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Hubble finds ‘smiley face’ drawn by galactic objects
NASA's space telescope was looking for new stars when it came across a happy accident.
NASA tries to fix Hubble problem by switching it off and on again
Hi, have you tried switching it off and on again?
How many galaxies are there?
Talk about a big count!
Hubble completes the most complete ultraviolet-light survey of nearby galaxies — and the photos are mind blowing
Talk about some mind-blowing images!
Five Reasons Why We Should be Exploring Space
Why bother about space in the first place? Well, here's why.
Latest census finds ten times more galaxies in the Universe — that’s nearly two trillion
More mind-boggling than ever.
The Universe is expanding faster than we thought, new Hubble study finds
Astronomers working with the Hubble telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding 5-9% faster than expected, and this is ...
NASA snaps beautiful picture of Mars as it inches over towards Earth
NASA astronomers captured a beautiful image of Mars on May 12, when the planet was just 50 million miles away ...
Hubble captures the death of a star, offering a glimpse of our sun’s final days
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into ...
Hubble’s ‘heir’ is coming together
NASA is very close to reaching a milestone in the construction of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Hubble's successor ...
3D map of the Pillars of Creation shows the same shaping forces will also destroy them
Using the MUSE instrument aboard ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have made a three dimensional view of the famous ...
Most detailed picture EVER of a new planet being born
Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...
Stunning Horsehead nebula imaged in infrared
Two fantastic space telescopes, Hubble and ESA's Herschel, have teamed up to image one of the most popular astronomical sights ...
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 ...
Keep your children close – zombie planet roams once more
The general consensus was that a star called Fomalhaut doesn't host any planet. But astronomers, the thorough people they are, ...
Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”
[caption id="attachment_13290" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Artist's rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a ...
Astronomers use massive objects in space as huge telescopes, find brightest galaxy via gravity lens
Whenever a massive object, with an equally massive gravitational pull, like black holes or galaxy clusters, falls between an observer, ...
Bright, rare galaxy from the dawn of the Universe glimpsed
An array formed by the greatest space telescopes in the world first discover, then photograph this ancient galaxy from the ...
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