Hubble

Astronomers and space fans have been waiting years for this moment: The James Webb Space Telescope team has finally made public a handful of stunning images, a tantalizing teaser of what’s to come.NASA’s latest flagship space telescope,…

(CNN) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has looked straight into the heart of a stunning galaxy.The observatory captured this head-on view of a grand design spiral galaxy, called NGC 3631, located about 53 million light-years…

Asteroids come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and they can have vastly different orbits around the sun — some having highly elliptical or elongated orbits, and some coming much closer to the sun than others. Around…

The universe’s expansion rate has fascinated astronomers for a long time. Since the initial studies by Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaitre in the 1920s to the discovery of ‘dark energy’ in the 1990s, the field has advanced slowly but…

When astronomers first observed supernova 2013ge, all they saw for several years was bright ultraviolet light from the explosion. But after time, the light began to dim and another source of ultraviolet light became visible:…

An international team of astronomers has run archival observations collected by the Nasa/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of 25 “hot Jupiter” exoplanets – bodies that orbit stars far beyond our solar system – using GPU-based acceleration…

As well as being a neat image, collecting data on such a densely packed group of galaxies can help astronomers learn about dark matter. Normally, dense groups of galaxies are found in the center of enormous galaxy clusters,…

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The particular comet in question, named C/2014 UN271, was first observed back in 2010. It was unusually bright, so it caught astronomers' attention, but it was also extremely far away at 3 billion miles from the sun. The…

“We almost didn’t believe it at first, it was so much farther than the previous most distant star,” Brian Welch, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of a Nature paper detailing the discovery, stated in a NASA press…