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"We were surprised by the streams of light that were visible near the center of the galaxies, as nothing similar has been ...
A new way to measure the length of Uranus’s day could also help determine the rotation rates of other celestial ...
Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...
With its origins tracing back to the 1970s, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery on ...
Uranus seemed like a fairly calm, blue-green planet. But new findings from Hubble paint a different picture of Uranus.
Recent studies indicate that the length of a day on Uranus is longer than previously thought. Scientists determined the exact ...
A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This ...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light ...
If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...
The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy ...
Kohoutek 4-55 is a dazzling planetary nebula captured in vivid color by the Hubble Space Telescope. Formed by the dramatic ...
Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2000 light-years from Earth in the constellation ...