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Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to capture a rare, close-up view of a quasar’s core.
Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a ...
The newly discovered comet is already putting on a show for amateur astronomers with telescopes at the ready. Comet SWAN25F, first spotted in data from the SWAN instrument aboard the sun-watching ...
Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...
What did Gaia achieve? And perhaps most importantly, why was it my favourite space telescope? Gaia was retired for a simple reason: after more than 11 years in space, it ran out of the cold gas ...
Pagan (STScI), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) An ancient galactic lighthouse is shining through the fog of the early universe, new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations reveal. Researchers ...
I plan to capture the partial solar eclipse by pairing my phone with the Seestar S30, a compact smart telescope that I’ve been using for over a month to capture my favorite galaxies, nebulas ...
Today astronomers are saying goodbye to a remarkable spacecraft: a telescope that has observed nearly two billion stars in its 12-year life. The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency ...
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a distant ancient galaxy suggesting that the early universe emerged from its "dark ages" earlier than previously believed. Webb, which ...