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30 years on, Hubble is still making dazzling discoveries
Strange exoplanet discovery makes a case for the elusive ‘Planet Nine’
NASA successfully deploys the James Webb Telescope’s enormous mirror
The huge mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope -- its successor to Hubble -- has been successfully tested for the first time, putting it one step closer to its eventual launch, which is slated for 2021. Like Hubble -- which has long outlive...
Hubble captures the immense ‘tsunami’ power of quasars
Powered by supermassive black holes that consume huge amounts of galactic material, quasars are some of the most energetic objects in the universe. How energetic? Some of them shine up to 1,000 times brighter than the galaxies that house them. Now, a...
Hubble telescope ‘mother’ Nancy Grace Roman dies
The astronomy world is poorer off today. Nancy Grace Roman, the first chief of astronomy at NASA's Office of Space Science, died on December 25th at 93. She was widely considered the "mother" of the Hubble Space Telescope, persuading the scientific...
Hubble Telescope Finds a Distant Planet Evaporating at Record Speed
Astronomers have found evidence of a medium-sized planet disintegrating under the scorching heat of its host star. The planet, named GJ 3470b, is considered to be a “hot Neptune,” because it has a...
Hubble Telescope Finds a Distant Planet Evaporating at Record Speed
Astronomers have found evidence of a medium-sized planet disintegrating under the scorching heat of its host star. The planet, named GJ 3470b, is considered to be a “hot Neptune,” because it has a...
Hubble Telescope Sees a Smiling Face in Space
Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) have captured a stunning view of a patch of space that is filled with galaxies. The region harbors galaxies of all shapes, colors...
Hubble Telescope Sees a Smiling Face in Space
Astronomers using Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) have captured a stunning view of a patch of space that is filled with galaxies. The region harbors galaxies of all shapes, colors...