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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
How Edwin Hubble Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Thought
A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...
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Gorgeous Hubble telescope image was 20 years in the making: Space photo of the day
The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...
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Sky Shorts: Hubble marks 35 years of space exploration
On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...
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Webb Space Telescope captures a star in the making and a galaxy far, far away
A light-year is equivalent to almost 6 trillion miles. Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, Webb observed the scene in the infrared. NASA said in a statement it was ...