Hubble Space Telescope

A supermassive black hole, weighing as much as 20 million Suns, has left behind a 2,00,000-light-year-long condensed trail of newborn stars, twice the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy, in…

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 1,200-pound NASA…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape the iconic Pillars of Creation where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The…

FP StaffSep 30, 2022 13:19:40 ISTThe Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most important scientific achievements of the human species that has helped us understand space. It has been in…

A supergiant dying star, which lost a substantial chunk of its visible surface in 2019, is healing up, according to astronomers. Named Betelgeuse, this aging star, with time, has swelled up…

In a detailed astronomical image, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a region of colourful dust and gas clouds encircling an HH 505 or a Herbig-Haro object in the Orion Nebula.…

The US space agency NASA has shared a photo of a “globular cluster”, which contains thousands of glittering stars from the universe. The agency collected the photo through the Hubble Space…

The universe’s expansion rate has fascinated astronomers for a long time. Since the initial studies by Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaitre in the 1920s to the discovery of ‘dark energy’ in…

Astronomers can now see galaxies of all shapes and sizes from nearly every angle, thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The mesmerising perspective of a galaxy seen edge-on reveals a…

The Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionised astronomy since its deployment in 1990. The telescope, which has a crystal-clear perspective of the universe and is far above rain clouds, light…