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What it is: An open cluster of stars called NGC 346 Where it is: 210,000 light-years away, in the constellation Tucana When it was shared: Dec. 16, 2024 Why it's [...]

The (https://www.livescience.com/tag/hubble-space-telescope) Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare 'blue lurker' star that has been feeding on material from its two conjoined siblings. The fast-spinning star provides a detailed look [...]

The Hubble Space Telescope has finally completed a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way's closest cosmic companion, the (https://www.space.com/15590-andromeda-galaxy-m31.html) Andromeda Galaxy -- having spent more than a decade snapping the [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 14, 2025 The name 'blue lurker' might sound like a villainous character from a superhero movie. But it is a rare class of star that NASA's [...]

What it is: Spiral galaxy UGC 10043 Where it is: 150 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens When it was shared: December 12, 2024 Why it's so special: This [...]

What it is: Our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Where it is: From about 365 million to 2.8 billion miles (587 million to 4.5 [...]

What it is: An emission nebula, or star-forming region, named Sharpless 2-106 Where it is: 2,000 light-years away, in the constellation Cygnus When it was shared: December 2011 Why it's [...]

The (https://www.livescience.com/tag/james-webb-space-telescope) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just solved a 20-year-old mystery about how ancient stars could host massive planets. In the early 2000s, the Hubble Space Telescope observed [...]

Nearly 35 years after its launch, the (https://www.livescience.com/tag/hubble-space-telescope) Hubble Space Telescope is still revealing new things about the cosmos. In a newly released series of images, scientists used Hubble to [...]

New observations made by the (https://www.livescience.com/james-webb-space-telescope) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have further cemented one of the most bizarre observations in all of physics -- that the universe expanded at [...]

You're a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions; could you tell us what's involved in training to go into space? As an astronaut you get trained to do all kinds [...]

REGULARS Dramatic “stellar volcano” captured by Hubble The spiral pattern extends 400 billion km into space. SPACE ABOUT 700 LIGHT-YEARS away is a pair of stars which have put on [...]

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a gigantic 'blowtorch-like' jet blasting out of a black hole -- and it seems to be causing nearby stars to explode. The [...]

Regulars Hubble changes how it slews across the sky The modification will help keep the telescope observing for as many years as possible The venerable Hubble Space Telescope will now […]

Features The legacy of the Space Shuttle As reusability becomes key to the new era of spaceflight, Ben Evans takes a look at the world's first reusable spacecraft and how [...]

What it is: A 3D visualization of the 'Pillars of Creation,' an iconic image of interstellar gas and dust taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Where it is: [...]

What it is: NGC 1546, a spiral galaxy Where it is: 50 million light-years away, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Dorado When it was shared: June 18, 2024 Why it's [...]

A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the [...]

New images released by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are of the Pegasus Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy, also known as Andromeda VI. The Pegasus Dwarf is located in the Andromeda Galaxy, also [...]

26 July 2024 From its vantage point in low-Earth orbit, the Hubble Space Telescope recently captured an intricate portrait of NGC 3430, a classic spiral galaxy that resides 100 million [...]

'The Hubble Space Telescope mission is clearly one of NASA's most internationally celebrated achievements. The genius of putting a telescope above Earth's blurring atmosphere has opened our eyes to a [...]

LIKE THE MILKY WAY, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a spiral marked by winding arms. These are regions where star birth and death run rampant, from glowing stellar nurseries to [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2024 In the effort to understand a warm gas-giant exoplanet, Arizona State University researchers have helped uncover its secrets. WASP-107b has puzzled astronomers for [...]

Paris, France (SPX) Apr 19, 2024 Using a vast archive of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have identified a previously unseen group of small main-belt asteroids. This discovery involved [...]

Regulars THE WIDE BLUE YONDER These two interacting galaxies are awash with bright young stars EYE ON THE SKY HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, 26 JANUARY 2024 The two blue beauties seen [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2024 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has once again captured the majestic beauty of Jupiter, showcasing the planet's vivid weather patterns in new images taken [...]

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 12, 2024 The riddle of the 'Hubble Tension'-the discrepancy between the observed expansion rate of the universe and the rate predicted by cosmological models-has been further [...]

Regulars Hubble shows storm-ravaged exoplanet Giant cyclones swirl around the distant planet WASP-121b only to vanish, according to a new study using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The find [...]

No mission has ever captured the public's imagination quite like Hubble. Since its launch on 24 April 1990, the venerable space telescope has made over 1.5 million observations of planets, [...]

On 1951, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky was observing the Coma Cluster of galaxies using a telescope at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. This cluster, containing more than 1,000 [...]

27 June 2024 The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new photo of infant stars nestled in a glowing cocoon of gas and dust. The bright clouds of dust [...]

24 May 2024 A bejewelled galaxy shines brightly in a stunning new photo from the Hubble Space Telescope. The nearby spiral galaxy, formally known as NGC 4689, lies only 54 [...]

A nearby galaxy is shining with star formation in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The spiral galaxy Messier 33, also known as the Triangulum Galaxy, is the [...]

Seasonal changes can have a dramatic effect on how quickly Mars loses its water to space, a joint study between the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile [...]

Regulars Hubble out of trouble Telescope’s gyro issues were latest in a run of problems The ageing Hubble Space Telescope is back in operation after a problem with one of [...]

Montreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 26, 2024 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the smallest exoplanet where water vapor has been detected in the atmosphere. At only approximately twice Earth's [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 08, 2024 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features a richness of spiral galaxies: the large, prominent spiral galaxy on the right side of [...]