The European Space Agency's (ESA) remarkable and relatively new Euclid space telescope teamed up with NASA and ESA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble) to capture beautiful photos of the Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543. [Read More]
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NASA's space shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope 380 miles (610 kilometers) above the Earth on April 24, 1990, 35 years ago today. To celebrate Hubble's birthday, NASA released four breathtaking new images. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2025-04-24 20:53
NASA and ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a fantastic image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571 using its Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The WFC3 captured separate exposures in the visible and ultraviolet regions of the spectrum and utilized several specialized filters. dpreview.com »
2022-03-28 19:05
Hubble has captured a stunning photo of two interacting galaxies that likely passed through one another, which caused them to ignite in a "frenzy of starbirth." [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-02-26 00:23
Lead image credit: NASA US astronomers want a new space-based telescope to search for exoplanets, and perhaps the project can't come soon enough. The Hubble Space Telescope's scientific operations are on hold for the second time this year. dpreview.com »
2021-11-09 00:14
Image credit: Caldwell 78 (NGC 6541). This is a star cluster roughly 22,000 light-years from Earth. It can be viewed from the southern hemisphere using binoculars. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and G. dpreview.com »
2020-12-21 17:22
In just one relatively small “bulge” of the Soul Nebula (also known as Westerhout 5) in the constellation of Cassiopeia, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that is still being born. petapixel.com »
2020-10-21 19:13
The aging Hubble Space Telescope has produced a new full portrait image of Jupiter, our Solar System’s stormy gas giant. NASA shared the image earlier this month, though it was captured by the space telescope on June 27. dpreview.com »
2019-08-30 18:58
New photos of one of the world's largest icebergs show it has turned bright blue, which, despite its beauty, is not good news for the once-great "megaberg." [Read More]
A team of scientists and artists sent a modified Insta360 camera to the edge of space, capturing breathtaking images meant to inspire people to reconnect with Earth. [Read More]
A few weeks after the Hubble Space Telescope captured an incredible photo of comet 3I/ATLAS as it screamed through the solar system at a blistering 130,000 miles per hour (209,000 kilometers per hour), the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South in Chile set its sights on the comet, capturing a gorgeous, colorful photo unlike anything seen before. [Read More]
Astronomers used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to capture the sharpest-ever photo of the comet 3I/ATLAS as it flew through the solar system at 130,000 miles per hour (209,000 kilometers per hour). [Read More]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory may be relatively old space observatories, but that doesn't stop them from making groundbreaking cosmological discoveries.
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