In addition to capturing visible light, modern telescopes have evolved to include instruments which gather ... it will be more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope. For most of our history ...

as it is the last image that will use data from one of Hubble’s instruments, the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. This instrument was replaced by the newer Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009 ...

But in 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope shattered that assumption ... To get around this challenge, astronomers look for ...

Hubble and its fellow observatories give us ... limiting the view from even the most powerful Earth-bound instruments. Orbital telescopes function as eyes in the sky that allow astronomers to ...

It is also the product of two different Hubble Space Telescope instruments from two different eras of its use 20 years apart, NASA wrote in a statement accompanying the image. The data was ...

Figuring out the true value of the Hubble constant is one of the greatest challenges in modern astronomy and could revolutionize our understanding of the universe—so scientists at the University of ...

This image combines data from two of Hubble's instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys, installed in 2002 and still in operation today, and the older Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 ...

A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope. The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust ...