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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers
A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.
NASA launches night sky challenge to celebrate Hubble anniversary
The agency is encouraging astronomy clubs to throw “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae and galaxies spotted by ...
Beautiful Hubble image shows the stunning colors of the Veil Nebula
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows one of the most famous and beautiful objects in the night sky.
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NASA’s Hubble provides bird’s-eye view of Andromeda galaxy’s ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
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Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...
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New NASA telescope SPHEREx is tasked with mapping the entire cosmos
This month, a new kind of space telescope is setting out on a two-year ... To simplify the mission of SPHEREx compared with that of the Webb or Hubble telescopes, it's helpful to think of ...
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NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
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NASA installs 'bulletproof' sunshade on powerful Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (photos)
The sunshade consists of two flexible layers of reinforced thermal blankets, differing from the rigid light shields used on ...