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If you've been wondering how long the day on Uranus is, you probably need to get out more. But if you have, you'll be ...
A revolutionary image made over 10 days in December 1995 from the Hubble Telescope 30 years ago of an area of the sky astronomers had thought was empty displays a massive quantity of celestial bodies.
Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...
In 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Telescope toward a seemingly empty spot in the sky. Because the telescope was purposely directed far away from the glare produced by stars in the Milky Way ...
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope are at the dawn of a new era in exploring the universe. With two powerful new instruments, added to Hubble in February 1997 by the crew of the Space ...
The Hubble Deep Field, shown here, is a patch of sky in the constellation of Ursa Major the Great Bear. It was originally chosen because it was an empty and apparently blank patch of sky - so no ...
Hubble has transmitted images from deep space ever since, including some of the most famous images of the cosmos such as the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field and the Pillars of Creation. Professor Madni is ...
3. Hubble Deep Field This remarkable image shows galaxies from the early Universe, over 12 billion years ago ...
On April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched onboard Space Shuttle Discovery, and the next day was deployed in space. It was the first astronomical observatory placed in orbit around ...