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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a distant star die, explode, and fade away in rare, colorful detail
A star 500 times larger than the sun collapsed, exploded, and died in a supernova 11 billion years …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side images of a whirlpool galaxy show details NASA's James Webb telescope captured but Hubble missed
The images show the majestic spiral arms of the M51, a galaxy located 27 million light-years away i…
Ellie Zolfagharifard,Marianne…
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The James Webb Space Telescope is astronomy's shiny new toy, but the Hubble Space Telescope isn't old news — it's at its scientific peak
Because Webb looks at the universe in infrared, it will miss celestial objects in the visible and u…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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NASA and SpaceX to investigate whether Crew Dragon spaceship could drag Hubble Space Telescope further from Earth
NASA and SpaceX plan to spend six months investigating whether the effort would work. It involves a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA has finally fixed the Hubble Space Telescope after almost 5 weeks of troubleshooting a mysterious glitch
Hubble has been conducting revolutionary science for 30 years, but its age is starting to catch up …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA is about to switch its Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware - a 'risky' maneuver to save its life
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline a month ago. They…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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NASA may attempt a 'risky' maneuver to fix its broken Hubble Space Telescope this week
Engineers have been troubleshooting NASA's Hubble Telescope since it went offline in mid-June. Now,…
Aylin Woodward,Morgan McFall-…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured photos of cyclones, changing colors, and seasons on 4 distant planets
NASA's most powerful space telescope peers across the solar system to spy new storms on Jupiter and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures photos of dark red storms raging in Jupiter's Northern hemisphere
New photos of Jupiter taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will help scientists to track and bett…
Marianne Guenot,Morgan McFall…
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope photographed colliding galaxies after recovering from a month-long mystery glitch
Hubble's first new photos show two colliding galaxies and one long galactic spiral. The telescope i…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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The Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for more than a week, and NASA isn't sure why
NASA's iconic Earth-orbiting observatory is getting old. After Hubble's last glitch over the summer…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA says its Hubble telescope captured a spiral galaxy that's as bright as a jewel and 68 million light-years from Earth
The European and US space agencies said a photo snapped by the Hubble was of a galaxy in the Fornax…
Kevin Shalvey
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapor on Jupiter's ocean moon Ganymede for the first time
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovered evidence of water vapor in the atmospher…
Kelly McLaughlin
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Reports of Russia building nuclear space weapons have alarmed officials, but security experts aren't panicked — yet
CNN reported that US officials have been briefed on a sort of nuclear EMP device designed to "destr…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected mysterious changes in Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The winds are changing inside Jupiter's biggest storm, and scientist aren't sure what it means. But…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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30 years of stunning photos show why NASA is fighting to save its Hubble Space Telescope from a mysterious glitch
Galaxy Messier 94, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, is rapidly forming new stars in the bright…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Even the Hubble Space Telescope's backup computer is glitching now - raising new questions about what's gone wrong
Hubble has been offline for 12 days. NASA's Hubble team is starting to think this may not be an err…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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To fix the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA may have to rely on a computer that hasn't turned on since 2009
Hubble engineers thought the issue was an old memory module. But that was just a symptom of the rea…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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New images reveal Jupiter's Great Red Spot and its smaller counterpart, Red Spot Jr., in stunning detail
Two telescopes worked together to capture jaw-dropping images of Jupiter through different types of…