Hubble Space Telescope

James Webb Space Telescope’s Giant Sunshield Test Unit Unfurled First Time

GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MD - The huge Sunshield test unit for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been…

10 years ago

Powerful Starbursts in Dwarf Galaxies Helped Shape the Early Universe, a New Study Suggests

Massive galaxies in the early Universe formed stars at a much faster clip than they do today — creating the…

11 years ago

The New and Improved Hubble Ultra Deep Field

It’s perhaps one of the most famous images in astronomy. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field displays nearly 10,000 galaxies across…

11 years ago

Saturn Aurora Sparkles In New Hubble Images

It's amazing to see what some flashes of light can tell us. New images the Hubble Space Telescope took of…

11 years ago

Celebrate Hubble’s 24th Birthday by Flying Through the Pillars and Peaks of the Monkey Head Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 24 years ago last week, and this newly released video is a birthday present…

11 years ago

New Hubble View Shows Objects a Billion Times Fainter Than Your Eyes Can See

While this image isn’t as deep as the Hubble Deep Field, this 14-hour exposure by the Hubble Space Telescope shows…

11 years ago

Three NASA Telescopes Begin Hunt For Earliest Galaxies

Talk about turning back time. Three NASA observatories -- the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer…

11 years ago

Hubble Telescope Watches Asteroid Disintegrate in Space

Back in 2010, astronomers discovered an asteroid that was breaking apart due to a head-on collision with another asteroid. But…

11 years ago

Is Eta Carinae Heading Toward Another Eruption?

Massive stars can devastate their surroundings, unleashing hot winds and blasting radiation. With a mass over 100 times heavier than…

11 years ago

Greedy Galaxies Gobbled Gas, Stalling Star Formation Billions Of Years Ago

Like millionaires that burn through their cash too quickly, astronomers have found one factor behind why compact elliptical galaxies stopped…

11 years ago