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For 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has taken photos of celestial objects across the universe. Look back at 10 photos ...
Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...
Night vision relies on a type of photoreceptor in your eye called a rod, while cones (a different kind of photoreceptor) ...
Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.
The school-bus-sized observatory launched on April 24, 1990 and overcame early setbacks to become one of the most ...
The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...
Spanning approximately 220,000 light-years across, the Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which also ...
The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...
Located approximately 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy, also known as Messier 104, is viewed nearly edge-on by the Hubble Space Telescope.