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In the photograph of NGC 1068, a spiral galaxy with a black hole at the center, Chandra’s X-rays are responsible for the blue coloring in the image. Optical photographs from both Hubble and Webb add ...
A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...
The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured this image of a nebula known as GN 04.32.8 within a larger stellar nursery ...
Globular clusters like NGC 1786 are tightly packed groups of stars, often containing hundreds of thousands of stars bound together by gravity. These clusters are incredibly old and stable, acting like ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbours, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. ESA ...
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and was designed to be serviced by the Space Shuttle. Michael J. Massimino, former NASA astronaut and professor of Professional Practice at Columbia ...
A new era of space science began on April 24, 1990 when the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. 35 years later, it’s taken 1.7 million observations.