The 12 Craziest Hubble Pictures of All Time
The Hubble Space Telescope has continuously unleashed a stream of jaw-dropping intergalactic imagery since it launched on April 24, 1990. Not only do these images, which look more like paintings at f…
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"Our Interstellar Destiny" --NASA's New Missions Expand Human Presence Deeper Into Solar System & Beyond
It was only in the last few years that we could fully grasp how many other planets there might be beyond our solar system. Some 64 million miles or 104 kilometers from Earth, the Kepler Space Telesco…
NASA Just Released The New Images Taken By Hubble, And They're Seriously Spectacular
NASA has released a batch of new images in its Hubble Messier Catalogue , giving us fresh looks at galaxies, nebulae, and more. Almost 250 years ago, French astronomer Charles Messier drew up a list …
The Hubble Space Telescope is Falling Towards the Earth
Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been redefining how we view our Universe. From hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth, it orbits the entire world every 97 minutes. Multiple servi…
Hubble Discovers a Unique Type of Object in the Solar System
With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics of an unusual type of object in the asteroid belt between Mars and…
The Hubble Space Telescope Just Observed Something That Can't be Explained By the Physics
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to measure the phenomenon first observed by the astronomer after which it was named: the expansion of the universe. It is the most precise measurement of the …
NASA Released An Incredible New Video Of A Star That Exploded With The Energy Of 100 Million Suns
On February 24, 1987, something unusual happened as astronomers Oscar Dhalde and Ian Shelton observed an unbelievable picture sitting on the top of a Chilean mountain: a new star in the night sky. Th…
Hubble Zooms In On Alien Atmospheres --"Something Is Changing The Way These Planets Look"
Is it a case of nature versus nurture when it comes to two "cousin" exoplanets? In a unique experiment, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study two "hot Jupiter"…
Astronomers Have Spotted A Super Massive Black Hole OUT OF CONTROL
Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has helped to pinpoint a supermassive black hole that is believed to be on the move. Dubbed a ‘renegade’ black hole, this object contains over 160 million t…
Hubble Breaks Cosmic Distance Record By Capturing The Most Remote Galaxy In The Universe
By pushing the Hubble Space Telescope to its extreme limits astronomers have crushed the cosmic distance record by calculating the distance to the most distant galaxy ever seen in the Cosmos . This g…
Universe Has Two Trillion More Galaxies Than Previously Thought
Researchers have recently found that the observable universe is much larger than previously thought. According to a new study, the observable universe has two trillion more galaxies than researchers …
WATCH: STUNNING Star Explosion Viewed For First Time
ASTRONOMERS have managed to watch a star exploding and seen its resulting shockwaves for the first time ever. Scientists using NASA’s Hubble telescope spotted the supernova purely by “luck” when they…
NASA Took A Snap Of ‘Empty’ Space – But Nothing Could Have Prepared Them For THIS!
AN off-the-cuff experiment by NASA scientists to point the Hubble Telescope at an apparently empty point in the cosmos and take a picture ended up changing astronomers’ understanding of the universe.…