[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] Last week, NASA successfully crashed the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in what is humanity’s first planetary defence test. Elsewhere, the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft had to be rolled back into the space agency’s Vehicle Assembly Building to protect the stack from the effects of Hurricane Ian. Read […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] Elon Musk’s SpaceX plans to fund a study with NASA to examine ways to use the space company’s Dragon capsule to raise the Hubble Space Telescope’s orbital altitude, which would extend its useful life, agency officials announced on Thursday. SpaceX, whose Crew Dragon capsule ferries astronauts and cargo to and from the International Space […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image that features multiple galaxies. The lone galaxy on the upper right is LEDA 58109. In the image, it is accompanied by two other galactic objects in the lower left. One is an active galactic nucleus called SDSS J162558.14+435746.4, which is partially obscuring the galaxy SDSS […]
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[ad_1] 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 […]
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[ad_1] In the last week, NASA pulled back the curtains on a photo gallery that flags off the next era of space exploration: the first images from the James Webb Telescope. The advanced Webb Telescope gave us some of the most detailed views of the farthest cosmic objects in the galaxy. But that was not […]
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[ad_1] Sometimes, in the depths of space, entire galaxies can merge and collide with each other, throwing out dust and debris that will lead to the creation of new stars. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured such an event: the CGCG 396-2 galaxy merger, which is an uncommon multi-armed galaxy merger that is 520 million […]
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