Great question! The answer has to do with Hubble's history. It's easy to forget that the Hubble has been in…
The Hubble Legacy Field, the result of 16 years of observations and the most detailed image of our Universe, has…
What happens when two galaxies collide? The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course, and in…
New images from Hubble have shown some interesting seasonal developments on Neptune and Uranus
It allowed us to spot auroras on Saturn and planets orbiting distant suns. It permitted astronomers to see galaxies in…
On January 8th, an important piece of equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope went down. The Wide Field Camera 3…
New research from the Hubble Space Telescope and the ESO's Very Large Telescope is dampening some of the enthusiasm in…
To the unaided eye, the Triangulum Galaxy is just a smudge in the night sky. But it's a smudge that…
The SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope captured this image of a white dwarf feeding…
The Hubble Space Telescope is a hero in the astronomy world. And when it suffered a malfunctioning gyro on October…