We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Hubble Space Telescope imagery created an HD look at the gas giant planet Jupiter. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

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A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the supernova remnant SNR 0509-67.5. These are the expanding ...

The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.

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Exoplanet HD 189733 b's secrets were unlocked by NASA's Hubble Telescope.

Duke researchers say they have played a key role in developing a groundbreaking telescope that is now capturing the most detailed images of the universe ever taken.