Hubble Space Telescope
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Uranus and Neptune may be rockier than thought, new study challenges ‘Ice Giant’ theory
Science | Dec 14, 2025, 06:35 PM ISTA new study suggests that Uranus and Neptune may not be ice-rich planets after all. Researchers from the University of Zurich propose that these distant worlds could be dominated by rock, challenging decades-old assumptions about their internal composition and offering fresh insights into planets.
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NASA Hubble celebrates 35 years with upgraded view of mysterious Sombrero Galaxy
Science | Apr 18, 2025, 01:07 PM ISTThough visually dynamic, it shows minimal star formation and hosts a massive but dormant black hole. The unique hybrid structure of the galaxy that features traits of both spiral and elliptical galaxies continues to puzzle scientists.
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7 beautiful images of universe captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
World | Jan 12, 2025, 02:09 PM ISTThe Hubble Space Telescope is a large astronomical observatory that launched on April 24, 1990, and it captures wide array of awe-inspiring images of space. Check top 7 beautiful images captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
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Hubble discovers Milky Way's impact on large Magellanic cloud
Science | Nov 16, 2024, 12:09 PM ISTHubble Space Telescope has revealed the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) losing its gas halo due to a close encounter with the Milky Way. The LMC’s halo, now just 50,000 light-years wide, has been reduced by gravitational forces. Researchers highlight this as a key example of galactic interactions.
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NASA's Hubble telescope reveals stunning Spiral Galaxy in deep space
Science | Sep 30, 2024, 06:32 PM ISTThe collaboration between Hubble, James Webb, and ALMA marks a new era of space observation, as scientists continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos through detailed imagery and powerful data.
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'Take a journey through triple-star system': NASA's Hubble telescope amazes space lovers
Trending | Jul 02, 2024, 03:45 PM ISTNASA never leaves an opportunity to amaze people. The space agency keeps sharing stunning pictures from the vast universe. Recently, they shared beautiful pictures of the triple-star system.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures the overlapping Spiral Galaxies | Details
Science | Jan 07, 2024, 11:51 AM ISTDespite the visual impression that the three galaxies on the right cluster are closely together, a closer look reveals a deceptive perspective. The LEDA galaxies, though appearing atop NGC 1356, are millions of light-years apart, their apparent proximity attributed to the observer's vantage point.
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Hubble Telescope captures the images of galaxies with ‘forbidden’ light
Technology | Dec 24, 2023, 05:48 PM ISTThe forbidden emission lines should not exist according to certain rules of quantum physics. But quantum physics is complex, and some of the rules used to predict it were formulated under laboratory conditions here on Earth, the team explained.
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NASA's Hubble space telescope captures mesmerising images of Jupiter
Science | Nov 06, 2023, 05:51 PM ISTEarlier, NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Wednesday (November 1) encountered the first of 10 asteroids on its long journey to Jupiter. The spacecraft swooped past the pint-sized Dinkinesh, about 300 million miles (480 million kilometers) away in the main asteroid belt beyond Mars.
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NASA's Hubble captures spectacular pair of interacting galaxies
Science | Oct 08, 2022, 11:10 AM ISTThe interacting galaxies are part of an effort to build up an archive of interesting targets for more detailed future study with Hubble, ground-based telescopes, and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
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NASA releases new images comparing sharper view of Universe using MIRI vs Spitzer telescopes
Science | May 10, 2022, 04:28 PM ISTThe James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s largest, most powerful, and most complex space science telescope ever built. Webb’s image, taken by its MIRI instrument, features light from “polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons."
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NASA's Hubble telescope captures stunning image of star-forming Prawn Nebula
Science | Nov 28, 2021, 01:22 PM ISTThe Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light-years from Earth.
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NASA's Hubble space telescope returns to science operations
Science | Jul 18, 2021, 05:46 PM ISTHubble, which has been watching the universe over the past three decades, faced trouble with its payload computer on June 13.
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New Hubble image shows colourful stars packed close together
Science | Sep 14, 2020, 02:44 PM ISTNASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have released a stunning image of a globular cluster captured by Hubble Space Telescope that features thousands of colourful stars packed close together.
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Hubble Space Telescope maps giant halo around Andromeda galaxy
Science | Aug 28, 2020, 01:07 PM ISTUsing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have mapped the immense envelope of gas, called a halo, surrounding the Andromeda galaxy, our nearest large galactic neighbour. This tenuous, nearly invisible halo of diffuse plasma extends 1.3 million light-years from the galaxy -- about halfway to our Milky Way -- and as far as two million light-years in some directions, said the study published in The Astrophysical Journal.
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Hubble telescope captures mesmerizing pictures of summertime on Saturn
Science | Jul 25, 2020, 09:51 AM ISTNASA's Hubble telescope recently captured some mind-blowing images during summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere. In these latest snapshots, Saturn looks like a 'lord of rings'.
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Hubble captures photos of 'fluffy' galaxy. Check details
Science | Jul 13, 2020, 12:28 PM ISTHubble space telescope has captured the mesmerizing 'fluffy' galaxy called NGC 2775, which is located 67 million light-years. The spiral pattern shown by the galaxy in this image is striking because of its delicate, feathery nature.
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NASA Hubble Telescope captures stunning galaxy moving away from earth at 3 million miles per hour
Science | Jul 07, 2020, 01:19 PM ISTThe Hubble Space Telescope captured galaxy NGC 7513 speeding away from us at a rate of roughly 1,564 kilometers per second, or nearly 1,000 miles per second. This is because of the fact that the Universe is always expanding and it drives many objects in space farther away.
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Hubble Space Telescope captures breaking of comet Atlas into dozens of pieces
Science | May 01, 2020, 10:41 AM ISTNASA's Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday captured a fragile comet, C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), disintegrate into more than two dozen pieces. Hubble identified about 30 fragments on April 20, and 25 pieces on April 23, NASA said on Tuesday, adding that all the pieces are enveloped in a sunlight-swept tail of cometary dust.
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Hubble Space Telescope yields 1.4 million observations in 3 decades
Science | Apr 26, 2020, 09:36 PM ISTThe Hubble Space Telescope, which is now celebrating 30 years of stunning discoveries, has yielded 1.4 million observations and provided data that astronomers around the world have used to write more than 17,000 peer-reviewed scientific publications