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A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping snapshots to stitch together. This mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars - a fraction of Andromeda’s population - spread across about 2.5 billion pixels.

Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

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galaxies scattered across the vast abyss of space.

Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis

By Keith Cooper published

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard model predicts.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured two young stars named HOPS 150, which glows a bright golden red in the upper-right corner of the image, and HOPS 153, which lies on the left side of the image, represented by a narrow, colourful jet, in the Orion Nebula.

Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

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This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. LEDA 22057 is the site of a supernova explosion, named SN 2024PI, which is visible in this image: located just down and to the right of the galactic nucleus. 

Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

By Julian Dossett published

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

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Mysterious spiral galaxy jet puzzles astronomers: 'At first, I thought I completely messed up'

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

Jets from a distant galaxy could offer fresh clues to how galaxies and their black holes evolve over eons.

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a giant swirling galaxy like an eye in space with a yellow center and red and white spiral arms.

'Grand' spiral galaxy dazzles in new Hubble Telescope photo

By Samantha Mathewson published

A grand spiral galaxy takes center stage in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Three large jupiters are below eight saturns, flanked by three uranus and three neptune.

Dramatic changes on Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter revealed in 10 years of Hubble Telescope images (video)

By Josh Dinner published

The space agency has learned a lot over 10 years observing the weather of our solar system's outer planets.

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A long thin galaxy with shining center stretches diagonally upward from left to right.

Inside the Hubble Space Telescope's 23-year-long look at a beautiful blue galaxy

By Larissa G. Capella published

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 and 2023.

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in a pink haze of space, a galaxy near center top shoots three blue lines downward left, to a gaseous smudge labeled LMC Halo.

Hubble Telescope witnesses Milky Way strip its galactic neighbor of gas

By Conor Feehly published

The Hubble Space Telescope may have captured our Milky Way galaxy being a bit of a bully.

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