Hubble Space Telescope Finds the Most Distant Star Ever Seen
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Show Us More Stars at Higher Resolution
…And Here’s What That Means for Astronomy… Early observations of stars in the local universe will pave the way for years of discovery across a range…
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16 Images to Celebrate Spitzer’s 16th Birthday
NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has been lifting the veil on the…
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Launch of James Webb Space Telescope Delayed Again
The James Webb Space Telescope is undergoing final integration and testing that will require more time to ensure a successful mission. Following a new assessment of…
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A Taster of Gaia’s Sky – Watch the Media Briefing
Launched in December 2013, Gaia is destined to create the most accurate map yet of the Milky Way. By making accurate measurements of the positions and…
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The Handprints Covering Hubble
Astronaut John Mace Grunsfeld remembers a quirky discovery back in 1999. He had just arrived at the Hubble Space Telescope and climbed out of the airlock…
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The First Stars Born Later Than Expected
New maps from ESA’s Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later…
Read the articleA Celebration of 25 Years of Hubble
In 2015, Hubble will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Check out the new Hubble25 site for a host of festivities centered on Hubble’s history and explorations. The…
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Keeping the Webb Space Telescope Cool
Here on Earth, under the protection of the layers of our atmosphere, we can still find the heat from the Sun sometimes almost unbearable. This is…
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Weird Ring of Dusty Material Seen by Herschel
The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of…
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