Hubble Space Telescope

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This image by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, features the Herbig-Haro object HH111, which lies about 1,300 light-years from Earth. Herbig-Haro objects consist of young stars blasting superheated jets through surrounding clouds of dust and gas.

Amazing Hubble telescope photo shows space 'sword' piercing huge celestial 'heart'

By Mike Wall published

A flaming blue sword seems to pierce a giant cosmic heart in a gorgeous new photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Space Exploration
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught a glimpse of a "stellar nursery" — a cloud of dust where stars are born.

Hubble telescope spies a stellar nursery through clouds in stunning image

By Kasandra Brabaw published

New stars are born! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of bright, baby stars peeking out of a "stellar nursery" — a cloud of dust where stars are born.

Space Exploration
The Jupiter moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, as seen by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft on July 7, 1979, from a distance of 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers).

Water vapor detected on huge Jupiter moon Ganymede for 1st time

By Charles Q. Choi published

In the wisp-thin sky of Jupiter's moon Ganymede, the largest satellite in the solar system, astronomers have for the first time detected evidence of water vapor, a new study finds.

Jupiter
These two images of strange galaxies are some of the first views from the revived Hubble Space Telescope taken on July 17, 2021 after science operations resumed following a month of work to resurrect the observatory from a computer glitch. At right: the three-armed spiral galaxy ARP-MADORE0002-503. Left: An interacting galaxy pair called ARP-MADORE2115-273.

See the first photos from the Hubble telescope after a major computer malfunction

By Tariq Malik published

After more than a month offline in orbit, the famed Hubble Space Telescope is back in action and snapping photos of the cosmos.

Space Exploration
The Hubble Space Telescope is back online!

Hubble telescope revived after a grueling month of darkness. Here’s what went wrong

By Brandon Specktor published

After more than a month in safe mode, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online. A wonky power regulator circuit may be to blame.

Space Exploration
The Hubble Space Telescope switched to backup hardware on July 16, 2021 after a glitch on June 13 took the scope offline.

NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer

By Chelsea Gohd published

Hubble is back!

Space Exploration
The Hubble Space Telescope drifts above the horizon of the Earth, as it has since 1990.

Hubble telescope spends a week in 'safe mode' following mysterious computer error

By Brandon Specktor published

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for a week following a mysterious computer crash.

Space Exploration
The NGC 2276 galaxy, recently imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, had previously made it to the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

Hubble telescope spies lopsided spiral galaxy deformed by gravity

By Tereza Pultarova published

A galaxy considered by astronomers among the strangest in the known Universe has had its picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Cosmology
An artist's depiction of the exoplanet GJ 1132 b, which orbits a red dwarf star about 41 light-years away from Earth and may sport lava continuously oozing up from cracks in its crust.

This strange lava-rich alien planet is making itself a new atmosphere

By Meghan Bartels published

Scientists think they've spied an alien world that lost its atmosphere — then conjured itself a new one.

Extraterrestrial Life
The collision of two neutron stars

Birth of magnetar seen for the first time

By Rafi Letzter published

Two neutron stars slammed together far away from Earth, and the Hubble may have spotted a magnetar emerging from the aftermath.

Physics & Mathematics
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