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The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...
UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...
Learn how Hubble is measuring the expansion rate of the Universe in this new explainer from NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...
John Grunsfeld captured a breathtaking image of the Tadpole Galaxy, shaped by past collisions and marked by bright bursts of star formation along its sweeping tail. David Leckrone's Hubble Ultra Deep ...
In a scene straight out of science fiction, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive black hole ...
This image shows a narrow galaxy curving around its companion, forming a rare cosmic arc. This image, captured by Hubble, reveals GAL-CLUS-022058s, nicknamed the "Molten Ring". This image shows the ...
Near the constellation Leo, JWST turned its gaze slightly aside. In the dim stars of Sextans, it spotted something ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...
If you ever want to get a bit of perspective, there's very little that's more humbling than a good deep field image – and ...
Galaxies speckle the heavens like stars in a stunning new photo of the deep and distant universe.
In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which manages the Hubble ...