Spooky 'face' spotted in space by Hubble
Although it looks a bit like an eerie, floating face suspended in space, the optical illusion spotted by the Hubble Space Telescope is really the result of two galaxies colliding.
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Starry space bubbles captured by Spitzer telescope
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spied something magical: gigantic bubbles in space with stars trapped inside them.
Hubble snaps new portrait of Saturn
When Saturn was approaching closest to Earth this year on June 20, the Hubble Space Telescope captured the view.
This sideways galaxy looks just like a lightsaber
At first glance, an image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope looks like every Star Wars fan's dream come true: Darth Vader's lightsaber just hanging out in a galaxy far, far away.
Judge sides with scientists trying to build telescope on Mauna Kea
A judge in Hawaii denied a request for a temporary restraining order that would have prevented scientists from building another telescope on Mauna Kea.
Hubble Space Telescope spots 'soccer balls' in space
The Hubble Space Telescope has identified soccer ball-shaped molecules amid the gas and dust that fills the space beyond our solar system and between other star systems.
NASA's planet-hunter TESS makes first discoveries
NASA's new planet-hunting TESS telescope has found an exoplanet three times the size of Earth only 53 light-years away. It has also discovered a super-Earth and a rocky world, making three exoplanet discoveries in the first three months since it began surveying the sky in July.
Citizen scientists discover rare exoplanet
Although NASA's Kepler space telescope ran out of fuel and ended its mission in 2018, citizen scientists have used its data to discover an exoplanet 226 light-years away in the Taurus constellation.
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