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Hubble’s Powerful Optics Received a Gravity Assist to Spot a Single Star 9 Billion Light Years Away
Officially designated MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1 (nicknamed Icarus), this star is the farthest ever seen. Now, we’ve…
Let’s Talk About Those Seven Planets Around TRAPPIST-1
NASA always drops big news, but today was special. Seven Earth-sized exoplanets around a single star. Located 40…
We Can’t See 90% Of The Galaxies In The Observable Universe
One of Hubble’s most famous images is the Hubble Deep Field. 324 separate exposures taken over a ten-day…
NASA Says It’s Not Aliens, But The Europa News Will Still Be Exciting
NASA is teasing big news about Europa. Next Monday, the space agency will hold a media call to…
Hubble Spots Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami Shedding Some Weight
Astronomers know comets disintegrate during their long, meandering journey through our solar system. We usually see a comet’s…
How the Hubble Frontier Field Program Gives Us a Glimpse at the Distant Universe
This is a section of space near Abell S1063. A galaxy cluster sitting four billion light years away.…
Hubble’s Perspective Turns a Pancake Galaxy Into a Stellar Firework
Perspective is everything. Even for the Hubble Space Telescope. As July 4th, approaches and all the hilarious mishaps…
Why Scientists Were Surprised to Find This Supermassive Black Hole
200 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is hard to explain.…
Hubble Sees a Galaxy It Shouldn’t Have Been Able To
Astronomers are hyped for the next generation of telescopes, and rightfully so. The James Webb Space Telescope, and…
Scientists Looked at the Atmosphere of a Super-Earth and It’s Not Pretty
More than 1,000 exoplanets have been spotted by scientists using the Kepler telescope. And, finding them is a…
Hubble Introduces Us to Trumpler 14 – An Open Cluster Full of Dazzling Stars
The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope is amazing. Aren’t they all? This time around we get…
How Astronomers Used a Natural Phenomenon to Spot the Faintest Object Ever
NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes are impressive pieces of hardware. But even they need a little help…