Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis, a young five-star system just off the top of this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. This image ...

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The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, has been a vital instrument for exploring the universe for over three ...

FU Orionis' inner disk temperature reaches 16,000K, thrice the Sun's. Hubble's ultraviolet data challenges existing stellar models. Findings shed light on planetary formation around eruptive stars.

The same goes for the LMC and the SMC. A brand new study based on Hubble Space Telescope observations has thrown weight behind our galaxy's reputation as a bully, showing that the size of the LMC ...

The Hubble Space Telescope imaged this lonely spiral galaxy called UGC 9391. The galaxy resides 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco near the north celestial pole.

A celestial light show illuminates a distant spiral galaxy, where a hidden supernova briefly outshines its stellar neighbors in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope. The galaxy, called NGC ...

A photo allegedly showing the Helix Nebula and that was said to have been captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was circulating online in late November 2024.

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This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows GAL-CLUS-022058s, a rare galaxy in the Fornax constellation, curving around its spherical companion. The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) combines a ...

Leroy With all the excitement over the last few years for the shiny and new James Webb Space Telescope, it’s easy to forget about the grand old master of the space telescopes, Hubble.