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When it comes to telescopes, there are no bigger names than Hubble and Webb, but why have two space telescopes anyway, how ...
At the 246th American Astronomical Society meeting in Alaska last month, scientists discussed how Trump's budget cuts could ...
The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles ... The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018.In 2009, ...
Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...
Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...
And though the James Webb Space Telescope's story began with a bang, we ought not to let Hubble's end with a whimper. "They're not shutting Hubble down," Meyer said. "We still think that's about a ...
Hubble's decades of service in space. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, with a famously flawed mirror, the opening chapter of an improbable ...
For the first time, the public is gaining access to data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Why? To create art! The release is part of NASA’s Astrophoto Challenge. An annual competition to … ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope observed the densely packed stars of cluster NGC6638, in all of its glittering glory.
A revolutionary image made over 10 days in Dec. 1995 from the Hubble Telescope 30 years ago of an area of the sky astronomers had thought was empty displays a massive quantity of celestial bodies.
Planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55 as viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... This view of Kohoutek 4-55 capped off 16 years of observations and was produced using state-of-the-art techniques.
Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter than the other — but not the side they were expecting.