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The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters known as N83, within one of the Milky Way’s nearest neighbors: the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Hubble Telescope spies star-forming cocoons in neighboring galaxy (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

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The starburst galaxy NGC 4536, seen here in a photo by the Hubble Space Telescope, has bright blue clusters of baby stars and pink clumps of ionized hydrogen gas speckled throughout its sweeping spiral arms.

Spiral starburst galaxy glows in gorgeous Hubble Telescope image

By Samantha Mathewson published

A recent image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a gorgeous spiral galaxy bursting with new star formation.

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An illustration of the 148780 Altjira system of two or maybe three asteroids. (Inset) the Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Telescope discovers a new '3-body problem' puzzle among Kuiper Belt asteroids (video)

By Robert Lea published

It's a new type of three-body problem for astronomers, who used the Hubble Space Telescope to determine that twin asteroids in the Kuiper Belt could be triplets.

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Hubble Space Telescope image of the colorful clouds of gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud about 160,000 light-years from Earth.

Hubble Telescope sets its eyes on cosmic cotton candy near the Tarantula Nebula (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard.

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Hubble Space Telescope spots a spectacular Bullseye in deep space (image)

By Victoria Corless published

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope spotted a cosmic Bullseye galaxy, revealing evidence of a rare kind of galactic collision.

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A panoramic view of the neighboring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away, requiring over 600 Hubble overlapping snapshots to stitch together. This mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars - a fraction of Andromeda’s population - spread across about 2.5 billion pixels.

Hubble Space Telescope reveals richest view of Andromeda galaxy to date (image)

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

The most detailed panorama of the entire Andromeda galaxy is packed with science that could revolutionize our understanding of how spiral galaxies across the universe form and evolve.

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galaxies scattered across the vast abyss of space.

Hubble tension is now in our cosmic backyard, sending cosmology into crisis

By Keith Cooper published

Measurements of the distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies find that it is millions of light years closer than the standard model predicts.

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured two young stars named HOPS 150, which glows a bright golden red in the upper-right corner of the image, and HOPS 153, which lies on the left side of the image, represented by a narrow, colourful jet, in the Orion Nebula.

Hubble Telescope spies newborn stars in famous Orion Nebula (photo)

By Samantha Mathewson published

A recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two protostars called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, which are located in the stellar nursery of the Orion Nebula.

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This Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy LEDA 22057, which is located about 650 million light-years away in the constellation Gemini. LEDA 22057 is the site of a supernova explosion, named SN 2024PI, which is visible in this image: located just down and to the right of the galactic nucleus. 

Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)

By Julian Dossett published

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a snapshot of a rare supernova that sits in the Gemini constellation, about 650 million light-years away from Earth.

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An ancient 3-star system give this 'blue lurker' a turbo boost, Hubble Space Telescope reveals

By Sharmila Kuthunur published

A massive white dwarf and a sun-like "blue lurker" star tell a remarkable story of what was once a triple-star system in the M67 cluster.

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