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A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope offers a "visual feast of galaxies," including objects billions of light years away and the most massive known galactic group.
A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.
Science Space Solar System Sun World’s largest solar telescope shows off its full force with new image The Inouye Solar Telescope's visible tuner filter offers dynamic look at the sun. By Andrew ...
This image, captured by a South African radio telescope named MeerKAT, also shows the ghostly, bubble-like remnants of supernovas that exploded over millennia.
Rather, it's an old photo from the Hubble Space Telescope 's archives that has been augmented with additional data and processing techniques as a part of a new image series that celebrates Hubble ...
The latest image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, pictured above, also happens to be a stunning illustration of Einstein's theory of general relativity. So much so that the cosmic ...
Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.
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The observatory houses the Stephens Telescope, given to Bates in 1949 by a self-taught astronomer, Roscoe G. Stephens of Kennebunk, who built the Newtonian reflector telescope himself.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet image of the planet.
Edwin Hubble’s photo; Martellus’ world map; Copernicus’ diagram of the solar system.
Two galaxies are converging in the constellation Leo Minor, and based on a new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, they're pretty pleased with their merger-in-progress.