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NASA has released a fireworks-like image of a nebula in the constellation Carina.

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LOOK: Hot, Young Stars Form 'Celestial Fireworks'

4:15pm July 04, 2018

by Merrit Kennedy

NASA posted the glittery image of stars that "live fast and die young" on the eve of Independence Day. It shows a cluster of "huge, hot" stars called NGC 3603, about 20,000 light years away.

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Lagoon Nebula, which is about 4,000 light-years away. It was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in February. The image was released to celebrate the 28th anniversary of Hubble.

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It's the Hubble Space Telescope's Birthday. Enjoy Amazing Images Of The Lagoon Nebula

5:40pm April 20, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

This month marks the Hubble Space Telescope's 28 years in space, and as a gift to us earthlings, NASA and the European Space Agency issued photos of colorful, explosive beauty.

This image made by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows part of a group of five galaxies known as Stephan's Quintet.

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'Are We Alone?' Churchill Concludes It's Likely Life Circles Other Suns

7:54am February 18, 2017

by Scott Simon

In an essay written in 1939, Winston Churchill pondered the possibility that there might be life elsewhere in the universe. The document was recently rediscovered in a museum in Fulton, Mo.

Some Assembly Required: New Space Telescope Will Take Shape After Launch

12:13pm November 28, 2016

by Joe Palca

The James Webb Space Telescope is undergoing its final series of tests in NASA workshops. It's designed to take even grander images than the Hubble telescope. But deploying it will be a major feat.

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This image shows a portion of the sky used to recalculate the total number of galaxies in the observable universe.

The Universe Has Almost 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought

6:11pm October 14, 2016

by Rebecca Hersher

A new study finds there are about 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, up from about 200 billion. It's the first major revision to that number since the 1990s.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the central region of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The R136 star cluster — the blue stars in the lower right — contains massive stars, including nine newly-identified stars more t

Hubble Space Telescope Pinpoints 'Monster' Stars

9:25am March 19, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Scientists combined images from a camera with ultraviolet light measurements from a spectrograph to identify nine stars more than 100 times as massive as the sun.

This new image from the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter, was made during the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program.

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New Hubble Images Show Jupiter's Great Red Spot Is Still Shrinking

1:44pm October 14, 2015

by Eyder Peralta

But, using images from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have learned the great storm is putting up a fight because it is now shrinking at a slower rate.

New details of Pluto's largest moon, Charon, are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager.

Strange Worlds At The Edge Of Our Solar System Finally Come Into Focus

4:22pm July 15, 2015

by Geoff Brumfiel

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best photos of Pluto and its moons. Scientists will puzzle over them for years to come.

Computer modeling illustrations of Pluto's moon Nix demonstrate that its orientation changes unpredictably as it orbits the "double planet" of Pluto and Charon.

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Pluto's Moons Are 'Tumbling In Absolute Chaos,' NASA Says

9:19am June 04, 2015

by Bill Chappell

In the NFL, something that behaves like Pluto's football-shaped moons might be called a wobbly duck. NASA calls them astonishing.

The Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, just outside Los Angeles. Edwin Hubble's chair, on an elevating platform, is visible at left. A view from this scope first told Hubble our galaxy isn't the only one.

Hubble's Other Telescope And The Day It Rocked Our World

12:36pm April 25, 2015

by Joe Palca

Amid this week's hoopla celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope, don't forget the clever astronomer for whom the space scope was named. In the 1920s, he changed our sense of ourselves and the universe.

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