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See Saturn's 'Ring Spokes' In Amazing Hubble Space Telescope Time-Lapse
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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The Insane Engineering of Orbit
Once in space, the Space Shuttle Orbiter became an autonomous space station, using a combination of powerful thrusters, advanced avionics, and life-support systems to maintain orbit. This video breaks ...
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The Trouble With Hubble: Payload Computer Glitch Stops Science At The Space Observatory
The Hubble Space Telescope’s remarkably long service life and its string of astonishing contributions to astronomy belie its troubled history. Long before its launch into low Earth orbit in 1990 ...
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Hubble Space Telescope
Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... Endeavour performed five days of spacewalks to repair the telescope in orbit some 353 miles (569 kilometers) above the Earth. The repair worked ...
Hubble's largest panorama ever showcases 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy
The stunning panorama features over 600 overlapping Hubble images that have been painstaking stitched together. Spread across 2.5 billion pixels, you'll find some 200 million stars ...
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Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)
Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star formation: the Orion Nebula, which is the nearest massive star-forming region to ...
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The James Webb telescope has reached its final destination
Now that it’s in place, NASA and the ESO can get started putting it to work studying parts of the galaxy and universe that Hubble isn’t able to reach. Now that James’ Webb’s orbit has been ...
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Image: Hubble captures young stars changing their environments
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the ... it's a binary star system where two young protostars orbit each other. Each star has a small, dusty disk of material surrounding ...
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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
Hubble snapped the image about six weeks after ... in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass. "When a white dwarf siphons material from a stellar partner, the white dwarf can become ...