Hubble telescope reveals huge star’s explosion in blow-by-blow detail

Hubble telescope reveals huge star’s explosion in blow-by-blow detail

About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented by astronomers in blow-by-blow detail. Researchers on Wednesday said NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture three separate images spanning a […]

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Webb, Hubble capture detailed images of DART impact

Webb, Hubble capture detailed images of DART impact

These observations of DART’s intentional crash with Dimorphos mark the first time that the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope simultaneously observed the same target. “Webb and Hubble show what we’ve always known to be true at NASA: We learn more when we work together. For the first time, Webb and Hubble have […]

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Hubble captures remarkable images of two spiral galaxies ‘overlapping’

Hubble captures remarkable images of two spiral galaxies ‘overlapping’

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured this beautiful image of two spiral galaxies seemingly overlapping in the sky. SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, the two galaxies in the image, lie more than a billion light-years away from our planet. Even though it looks like both the galaxies are colliding in the image, the two galaxies […]

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Hubble captures a globular cluster that looks like a sea of sequins

Hubble captures a globular cluster that looks like a sea of sequins

NASA has released an image of the globular cluster Terzan 2 in the constellation Scorpio captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Stable, tightly bound clusters of tens of thousands to millions of stars are called globular clusters and they are found across a variety of galaxies. They get their regular, spherical shape from the intense […]

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Hubble captures stunning image of globular cluster with thousands of stars

Hubble captures stunning image of globular cluster with thousands of stars

NASA has released a picture of a “globular cluster” that contains thousands of glittering stars. The Hubble Space Telescope used its Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys to capture this image of the globular cluster NGC 6569 in the Sagitarrius constellation. Globular clusters are stable and tightly bound clusters that contain tens […]

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