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A gorgeous sparkling scene with pinkish red structures and a dark blue sky.

Scientists spice up old Hubble Telescope image to shine light on spectacular star cluster

By Julian Dossett published

Scientists have released a never-before-seen view of a star cluster, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.

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A blue tinted spiral in space. It is very sparkly and seen slightly edge-on. At the center, a bright spot.

Nearby star photobombs portrait of a distant galaxy in new Hubble Telescope image

By Samantha Mathewson published

A bright star located in the Milky Way appears nestled in the distant galaxy NGC 5530 due to a chance alignment along the Hubble Space Telescope's line of sight.

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Changing seasons on Uranus tracked across 20 years by Hubble Space Telescope

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

These long-term observations can also help scientists study exoplanets with similar traits.

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Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors at only about 200,000 light-years from Earth.

Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a gorgeous new view of one of our nearest galactic neighbors, which is full of bright, colorful stars.

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a spiral galaxy and a bright star appear to overlap in a hubble space telescope image

Gorgeous Hubble telescope image was 20 years in the making: Space photo of the day

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is an optical illusion.

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Stellar nursery sparkles at the edge of our galaxy in gorgeous Hubble Telescope image

By Samantha Mathewson published

The stellar nursery mirrors conditions of the early universe, scientists say.

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The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters known as N83, within one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors: the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright blue clusters of baby stars and pink clumps of ionized hydrogen gas speckled throughout its sweeping spiral arms.

Spiral starburst galaxy glows in gorgeous Hubble Telescope image

By Samantha Mathewson published

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

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An illustration of the 148780 Altjira system of two or maybe three asteroids. (Inset) the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)

By Robert Lea published

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.

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Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from Earth.

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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