The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

Explore these orbiting pioneers and learn what they've discovered. 3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to free astronomers of a limitation that has plagued them since the days of ...

The European Space Agency’s Planck mission produced the most detailed map of the cosmic microwave background to date, which has been used to calculate a most-likely Hubble constant of only 67.8 ...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB ... of the CMB radiation by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft, the standard model predicts that the Hubble constant should be 67.4 kilometres ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to capture an incredible image of a galaxy that looks an awful lot like a bullseye. "This was a serendipitous discovery," said Imad Pasha, the lead researcher ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings. The new composite image, which combines hundreds of photos from the Hubble ...