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Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ...
Sometimes even scientists get lucky. Yale University astronomer Imad Pasha was scanning some ground-based images when he stumbled across a galaxy boasting several rings. Because the object's name, ...
The game-changing Vera Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...
An exoplanet 60 light-years away from Earth, known as 14 Herculis c, is thought to be the coldest one yet found, researchers ...
June offers a packed night sky—planets, meteors, clusters, and a full moon. Whether you're up early or out late, there’s plenty to see. Catch Venus at its best before dawn on June 1, when it appears ...
is a painting of the 13-ton NASA Hubble Space Telescope. NASA's space shuttle Discovery, in this painting, depicts the $2 billion observatory's deployment at 330 nautical mile altitude.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Decades of stunning images have continued to spark our imagination thanks to 35 years of the Hubble Space Telescope ... of them is the Rosette Nebula, or a part of it ...
Spaceflux SWIR space surveillance testbed, which allows daytime tracking and monitoring. (Spaceflux) Spaceflux is looking to make its short-wave infrared (SWIR) telescope testbed fully operational ...
The galaxy is a member of the NGC 3511 group, a small group of galaxies that also includes NGC 3513 and ESO 502-024. “From Hubble’s vantage point in orbit around Earth, NGC 3511 is tilted by about 70 ...
Hubble captured this dazzling view of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy shimmering with clouds of gas that resemble cotton candy. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray Hubble’s ...
The "cotton-candy" clouds of gas and dust in the Large Magellanic Cloud, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray) Quick facts ...
They used the Hubble Space Telescope and the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to capture and study Altjira. Two new Hubble observations added to a dataset that spans an impressive 17 years.