A generation-defining NASA mission allowed us to peek into space more effectively than ever before 31 years ago. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit in February 1990, and …
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Until just a century ago, our galaxy was thought to be the lone family of stars occupying the Cosmos. Philosophers, notably Immanuel Kant in the 18th Century, postulated the existence …
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NASA’s Hubble Find Close Rocky Planet With ‘Tantalizing Parallels To Earth’—And It’s Coming Back From The Dead
This image is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b. For the first time, scientists … [+] using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence of volcanic …
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The Hubble Space Telescope found a handful of black holes in a distant collection of stars. NASA, ESA, T. Brown, S. Casertano, and J. Anderson (STScI) One of the world’s …
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The ‘Lost Galaxy’ NGC 4535 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have published a …
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The opening years of the Fourth Century saw work begin on St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, and the astronomer Pappus of Alexandria wrote details of his observation of an eclipse …
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In Photos: Hubble Captures Echoes Of Violent Supernova ‘Fireworks’ That Lit-Up Night Sky In The Third Century
Hubble has imaged a supernova remnant called 1E 0102.2-7219. It is the remnant of a star that … [+] exploded long ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy …
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The hot and cold spots from the hemispheres of the sky, as they appear in the CMB. The data … [+] underlying these maps encodes a tremendous amount of information …
