Hubble Space Telescope

Saturn Aurora Sparkles In New Hubble Images

It's amazing to see what some flashes of light can tell us. New images the Hubble Space Telescope took of…

10 years ago

Celebrate Hubble’s 24th Birthday by Flying Through the Pillars and Peaks of the Monkey Head Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24 years ago last week, and this newly released video is a birthday present…

10 years ago

New Hubble View Shows Objects a Billion Times Fainter Than Your Eyes Can See

While this image isn’t as deep as the Hubble Deep Field, this 14-hour exposure by the Hubble Space Telescope shows…

10 years ago

Three NASA Telescopes Begin Hunt For Earliest Galaxies

Talk about turning back time. Three NASA observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer…

10 years ago

Hubble Telescope Watches Asteroid Disintegrate in Space

Back in 2010, astronomers discovered an asteroid that was breaking apart due to a head-on collision with another asteroid. But…

10 years ago

Is Eta Carinae Heading Toward Another Eruption?

Massive stars can devastate their surroundings, unleashing hot winds and blasting radiation. With a mass over 100 times heavier than…

10 years ago

Greedy Galaxies Gobbled Gas, Stalling Star Formation Billions Of Years Ago

Like millionaires that burn through their cash too quickly, astronomers have found one factor behind why compact elliptical galaxies stopped…

10 years ago

Black Hole Steals Gas From Trillions Of Stars

Got gas?  The black hole in galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021 is keeping it all for itself and stopping trillions of stars…

10 years ago

Space Telescopes Look Back 13.2 Billion Years and See Surprisingly Luminous Galaxies

What was the Universe like more than 13 billion years ago, just 500 million years after the big bang? New…

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