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A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda galaxy. Zoom in and explore.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our ...
Image | Edwin Hubble Seeing the Cosmos Through a New Lens Caption: Edwin Hubble seated at the 2.5-metre reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California.
That cosmologists cannot agree on one of the most elementary facts about the universe is striking enough. But that ...
The telescope was named after astronomer Edwin Hubble, who studied the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy using the Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles in 1923, according to the observatory’s website.
Though it probably doesn't need an introduction, the Hubble Space Telescope is a 24,000-pound (10,900 kilograms), 43.5-foot-long (13.2 meters) observatory that to date has made nearly 1.7 million ...
Hubble had been in space for less than two years when its Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph detected traces of boron in a not-too-distant star. At an estimated age of 14.5 billion years, the ...
Though small, the defect made the telescope mostly useless to astronomers. Thankfully, Hubble was designed to be serviceable, and NASA's best minds took to the task. Servicing Mission 1 STS-61 crew: ...
This is called the Hubble constant, named after famed astronomer Edwin Hubble. Hubble — the man — found that the farther away galaxies were from Earth, the faster they seemed to be moving.
Astronauts repaired and upgraded NASA's Hubble Space Telescope over the course of five servicing missions from 1993 to 2009. Could yet another astronaut visit be in the cards?