It is summer on Saturn, and rarely have Earthlings had such a clear view of it. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a new image of the planet, showing its rings in stunningly clear detail. NASA called Saturn the “lord of the rings” in its recent announcement about the new …
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The Hubble Space Telescope has spent the past 30 years orbiting 547 km (340 miles) above Earth. The old satellite has had a couple of problems in the past few years, but amazing photos of our cosmic courtyard have yet to be taken. For example, earlier this month, Hubble flexed …
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant star covering the shadows of the “bat wing” in space. The bright light from the star is hitting a debris disk surrounding the star, casting wide shadows that we can see thanks to Hubble. The wings even “flutter” as a …
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a distant galaxy called NGC 2775, which is 67 million light years from Earth. The galaxy is full of young stars and has an open bulge at its center. Hubble’s mission is a joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency. …
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In a giant cloud of gas and dust 1,400 light-years away, twin shadows extend through space from a star, like the vast wings of a colossal cosmic bat. Now astronomers have surprised the hit of these shadows, and are not sure what is causing it. The winged shadow, photographed using …
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