It can be seen with the naked eye on a very clear autumn night as a faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon. A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that ...

Hubble captured an exploding star about 650 million light-years from Earth. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, trouble has been ...

The magnificent Andromeda galaxy (Messier 31), stands out as the most important nearby stellar island to our Milky Way, and can be seen with the naked eye on a clear autumn night as “a faint ...

a website with Hubble imagery and press releases, to be shut down and content moved to a NASA website in March. There will also be a reduction in grant funding to $15.9 million and “compressed ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a record-smashing galaxy wrapped in 9 rings of stars — along with the dwarf galaxy that violently plunged through its center.

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The water ripples out from where the bird breaks the surface. The Hubble Space Telescope is helping scientists unravel the history of the two galaxies and the results of their cosmic meetup.

The mosaic spans the full width of the galaxy, covering an area six times larger than the full Moon in the night sky. Because Hubble is designed for pinpoint accuracy rather than wide-field imaging, ...

It was a century ago that Edwin Hubble himself established the fact that the faint cigar-shaped object roughly the apparent angular diameter of our Moon, Andromeda (or Messier 31 to give it its proper ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

Hubble can only detect stars brighter than our Sun, enabling the telescope to capture just a fraction of Andromeda’s estimated total population of 1 trillion stars. The galaxy can be seen with the ...