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The Soul Nebula, with a star-forming "tadpole" in the upper center left.

Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cosmic tadpole' in a sea of red

By Jamie Carter published

Amid the Soul Nebula's harsh red light, a cocoon of gas holds baby stars in the making in this ethereal new Hubble telescope image.

Astronomy
Artist's depiction of the China Space Station Telescope.

New Chinese space telescope will 'outdo Hubble', researchers claim

By Leonard David published

China's Xuntian space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024 and was designed to outdo NASA's Hubble.

Space Exploration
The birdlike galaxy NGC 2936 is being ripped apart by the smaller galaxy NGC 2937.

Space photo of the week: Warped 'hummingbird galaxy' guards a cosmic egg

By Jamie Carter published

Hubble's image of two colliding galaxies, known as Arp 142, show how a small galaxy's gravity has shredded a once-large spiral into a birdlike figure.

Astronomy
Arp 107, a celestial object that comprises a pair of galaxies in the midst of a collision, with a Seyfert galaxy on the left.

Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a spectacular galaxy crash

By Jamie Carter published

Arp 107 hosts a special spiraling 'Seyfert' galaxy connected to a smaller galaxy by a 'bridge' of dust and gas.

Astronomy
A galaxy grouping called Stephan’s Quintet, which contains an imposter galaxy that is actually much closer to Earth than the others.

An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glare

By Robert Lea published

A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.

Black Holes
The lenticular galaxy NGC 6684 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space photo of the week: A cosmic 'ghost' peers through the universe's past

By Jamie Carter published

Imaged beautifully by Hubble, NGC 6684 is a 'lenticular' galaxy very different to our own Milky Way.

Astronomy
An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectives

By Andrew May last updated

Reference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.

Reference
In September 2022, NASA’s DART probe smashed into the Dimorphos asteroid. The Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an image of the giant dust plume that was generated.

New Hubble footage shows exact moment a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid 7 million miles from Earth

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into a small space rock last year, and the effects were visible from Earth orbit.

Asteroids
An illustration shows a bright white dwarf star shining in front of a vast sea of distant stars and galaxies

NASA scientists 'weigh' a white dwarf for the first time using a space-time trick predicted by Einstein

By Briley Lewis published

NASA astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the mass of a white dwarf, an important step for understanding how stars die.

Space
A near-perfect Einstein ring from the galaxy JO418.

Stunningly perfect 'Einstein ring' captured by James Webb Space Telescope

By Harry Baker last updated

A new image using data collected by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows off one of the most perfect "Einstein rings" ever captured.

Space Exploration
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