Three young stars have been kicked out of their cosmic nursery, perhaps for engaging in a gravitational brawl, according to Hubble Space Telescope scientists, who released images of the trio on ...
For the first time, an international research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy ...
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The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...
Los Angeles was once the best place in the world to see the universe. The most important things we know about the cosmos were discovered in the early 20th century at Mt. Wilson Observatory. It was ...
WASHINGTON — The Hubble Space Telescope marked its 35th anniversary this week and NASA celebrated by releasing a series of stunning new photos from the observatory. With nearly 1.7 million ...
A critically important number that specifies the expansion rate of the Universe, the so-called Hubble constant, has been independently determined using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. This new value ...
Two papers authored by astronomer Beatriz Villarroel claim to show that thousands of “transients” in historic astronomical ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...