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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
As planets pass in front of their parent stars as viewed from Earth, they cause a tiny dip in the amount of starlight we ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
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See Saturn's 'Ring Spokes' In Amazing Hubble Space Telescope Time-Lapse
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Hubble Telescope Snaps Galaxy With Way More Rings Than Any Other
The Bullseye galaxy earned its nickname thanks to its wild number of rings. A smaller galaxy shot through its heart 50 ...
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The Insane Engineering of Orbit
Once in space, the Space Shuttle Orbiter became an autonomous space station, using a combination of powerful thrusters, advanced avionics, and life-support systems to maintain orbit. This video breaks ...
Hubble captures supernova-hosting galaxy in the constellation Gemini
The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a supernova-hosting galaxy located about 600 million light-years ...
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'Herculean' 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows our closest galactic neighbor like never before — and took more than a decade to create
The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the Andromeda Galaxy with ...
Live Science26d
Space photo of the week: The tilted spiral galaxy that took Hubble 23 years to capture
That's one advantage of having a space telescope in orbit for so long: Hubble was launched from the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, and its long service has enabled it to capture a huge ...
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Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)
Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...
Newsweek20d
NASA Image Reveals Jupiter As You've Never Seen It Before
Hubble Space Telescope image of an ultraviolet view of ... During opposition, Jupiter is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit—typically around 367 million miles away—making it appear ...
Hubble Discovers “Blue Lurker” Spinning So Fast, It’s Breaking Astronomers’ Models
A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...
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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA ... in which a pair of stars orbit a common center of mass. "When a white dwarf siphons material from a stellar partner, the white ...