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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
Skywatch: Putting Hubble’s cosmic discoveries into focus
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
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Gorgeous Hubble telescope image was 20 years in the making: Space photo of the day
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...
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U of T researchers explain the significance of the universe's recent 'baby pictures'
Measuring light that has travelled for almost 14 billion years to reach a telescope high in the Chilean Andes, the two new ...
5 mesmerising pictures of Hubble's nebulae captured by NASA
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope releases its first images on mission to map millions of galaxies
SPHEREx will begin routine science operations in late April, NASA said. At that time, the space telescope will begin taking about 600 exposures a day. The observatory is capable of detecting infrared ...
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Stellar nursery sparkles at the edge of our galaxy in gorgeous Hubble Telescope image
The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...
NASA Captures Long Sought-After Images Of Auroras On Neptune For The First Time Ever
After over 35 years of trying, NASA finally confirmed Neptune has auroras. They did this when astronomers were able to ...
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Check Out Neptune’s Beautiful Auroras, Captured for the First Time by the James Webb Space Telescope
Scientists suspected the ice giant hosted auroras—and had already observed them on Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus. But an ...
First Images From NASA's SPHEREx Telescope Stun Astronomers; 'I'm Rendered Speechless'
SPHEREx is somewhat similar to the Webb telescope as it also observes the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the eye but can be felt as heat. With its six detectors, it can break down ...