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The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...
To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.
The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...
From spellbinding images to groundbreaking scientific discoveries, we look back on some of Hubble's most exciting milestones.
In celebration of the 35th anniversary of the legendary space telescope’s launch, here are 35 of our favorite images it has ...
In the years since, Hubble has gathered more than 1.6 million observations and 430 terabytes of data. The telescope has ...
For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of celestial objects across the universe. Look back at 10 photos ...
Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...
Cosmological simulations say that such an alignment should not happen, with a probability of less than 0.3%. Our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31, or M31) appears to sport a lopsided ...
But Hubble determined that V1, located inside the Andromeda "nebula," was at a distance that far exceeded anything in our own ...
Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...
A bright star within our Milky Way galaxy photobombed a beautiful new image of a distant galaxy with "patchy" spiral arms.