NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

New data further challenge the best scientific theory of the history and the structure of the universe. But a separate recent ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope marks its 100,000th exposure, capturing a dazzling quasar 9 billion light-years away with a ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reached a remarkable milestone—its 100,000th exposure, capturing an image of a quasar located 9 ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's handwritten circle around the variable star he discovered In 1919 American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in ...

the Hubble constant should be around 68 km/s/Mpc—but this doesn’t match up to observations of the actual stars and galaxies astronomers see around us. UChicago astronomer Wendy Freedman led a team ...

Hubble himself. Light that was blue or yellow ... Yet it is spectra which are the astronomer's most powerful diagnostic tool: from them we learn the chemical composition, temperature, density ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. Born 135 years ago today on 20 November 1889 ...

It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in ...

an astronomer at UC Berkeley, in a statement. "No one knows what to make of that so far." SEE ALSO: A tiny galaxy ceased making stars for billions of years. Then it rebooted. Hubble captured a ...

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...