High-resolution imagery from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which ...

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun If you’ve ever done any public outreach work for astronomy—if you’ve given ...

said in a separate presentation that NASA is currently envisioning a massive space telescope nearly 20 feet (6 meters) wide, and suggested it could get as large as 26 feet (8 m). The Hubble Space ...

Hubble's sharp imaging capabilities can resolve more than 200 million stars in the Andromeda galaxy, detecting only stars brighter than our Sun. They look like grains of sand across the beach. But ...

Another galaxy that appears nearby in the Hubble image (though its location still ... "If we looked at this galaxy 20 years, or maybe even a decade ago, we would have seen a fairly average quasar ...

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, trouble has been ...

interim head of the Hubble Space Telescope Mission Office at the institute. That is a cut of more than 20% from current costs to run the telescope and handle science operations, she said.

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...