Hubble captures peculiar portrait of ‘cosmic keyhole’

Hubble captures peculiar portrait of ‘cosmic keyhole’

The star of this interesting image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is NGC 1999, a reflection nebula around 1,350 light-years away in the constellation Orion. The reflection nebula is the closest region of massive star formation to Earth, according to the European Space Agency (ESA). The image was created using archival observations from 1999. […]

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Space news weekly recap: China’s plans for lunar minerals, Indian reusable rocket and more

Space news weekly recap: China’s plans for lunar minerals, Indian reusable rocket and more

While NASA began its work to replace the faulty hydrogen seal on the Artemis 1 mission’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, ISRO announced that it will be working on designing and building a reusable launch vehicle for the global market. Read about al the interesting space news that happened over the last week in our […]

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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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Hubble space telescope captures two star-forming spiral galaxies

Hubble space telescope captures two star-forming spiral galaxies

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of two spiral galaxies, which are collectively known as Arp 303. Individually, they are called IC 563 (bottom) and IC 564 (top) are more than 275 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sextans. The image used data from two separate Hubble observations of Arp 303. […]

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