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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and has taken some of the most stunning photographs of the universe around us.

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A 180-mile-high plume of the volcano near Io's north pole.

The top space stories of the week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

These are the top space stories this week from Space.com.

These two images of strange galaxies are some of the first views from the revived Hubble Space Telescope taken on July 17, 2021 after science operations resumed following a month of work to resurrect the observatory from a computer glitch. At right: the three-armed spiral galaxy ARP-MADORE0002-503. Left: An interacting galaxy pair called ARP-MADORE2115-273.

See the first photos from the Hubble Space Telescope after a major computer malfunction

By Tariq Malik

After more than a month offline in orbit, the famed Hubble Space Telescope is back in action and snapping photos of the cosmos.

The Hubble Space Telescope is back online!

Hubble telescope revived after a grueling month of darkness. Here's what went wrong.

By Brandon Specktor

After more than a month in safe mode, the Hubble Space Telescope is back online. A wonky power regulator circuit may be to blame.

Mercury 13 aviation pioneer Wally Funk, 82, waves to a crowd after launching on Blue Origin's first crewed flight of the suborbital New Shepard rocket and capsule from Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas on July 20, 2021.

Space photos: The most amazing images this week!

By Doris Elin Urrutia

See the best photos on Space.com this week.

The Hubble Space Telescope switched to backup hardware on July 16, 2021 after a glitch on June 13 took the scope offline.

NASA revives ailing Hubble Space Telescope with switch to backup computer

By Chelsea Gohd

Hubble is back!

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Hubble trouble is latest glitch in space telescope's long and storied history

By Meghan Bartels

For the past month, our most beloved eye on the universe has been closed, blinded by a computer glitch that NASA experts are still working to solve.

Astronauts deployed the Hubble Space Telescope from the space shuttle Discovery in 1990.

NASA may finally know what caused the Hubble Space Telescope's major computer glitch

By Mike Wall

Engineers have identified the possible cause of the Hubble Space Telescope's computer problems, and they plan to start implementing a fix on Thursday (July 15).

The red giant star Camelopardalis.

New measurement may resolve cosmological crisis

By Adam Mann

Astronomer Wendy Freedman suggests that the latest observations of red giant stars could be closing the gap on the Hubble tension.

Astronauts deployed the Hubble Space Telescope from the space shuttle Discovery in 1990.

The Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious glitch in a decade and NASA really wants to fix it

By Meghan Bartels

The venerable Hubble Space Telescope is facing its most serious malfunction in more than a decade, and while NASA is eager to restore the iconic observatory, the agency doesn't want to rush.

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the brilliant open star cluster NGC330 in the Small Magellanic Cloud based on archived observations from 2018.

Hubble telescope spots red, white and blue stars in sparkly cluster

By Tariq Malik

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a dazzling new view of a distant star cluster, one filled with stars that sparkle in red, white and blue.

The Hubble Space Telescope as seen during its final servicing mission, in 2009.

NASA preparing to switch glitchy Hubble Space Telescope to backup hardware if needed

By Meghan Bartels

As NASA continues to diagnose a computer glitch on the Hubble Space Telescope, engineers are preparing to turn on backup hardware.

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally deployed on April 25, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery.

No quick fix for Hubble Space Telescope's computer glitch, NASA says

By Samantha Mathewson

NASA is still investigating the computer glitch that has left the Hubble Space Telescope offline after an unsuccessful attempt to turn on its backup computer for the first time in space.

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally deployed on April 25, 1990, from the space shuttle Discovery.

Hubble Space Telescope's 1980s computer glitch may run deeper than NASA thought

By Meghan Bartels

It turns out it's tricky to troubleshoot a 1980s computer that's dashing around Earth hundreds of miles over our heads.

ultra-diffuse galaxy NGS 1052-DF2

Hubble Space Telescope finds galaxy with weirdly little dark matter

By Rahul Rao

Astronomers may not know what dark matter is, but they do know that galaxies are supposed to contain a lot of the shadowy, invisible substance.

The famous Hubble Space Telescope image Pillars of Creation reimagined as a LEGO set.

See the Hubble Space Telescope's iconic Pillars of Creation in Lego form

By Elizabeth Howell

One of the Hubble Space Telescope's most iconic pictures is now reimagined in Lego form.

June 13, 2021, the Hubble Space Telescope shut down after an issue with a 1980s-era payload computer. Team members continue to work on the issue to get the telescope operational once again.

Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by issue with its 1980s computer

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA is working quickly to fix the Hubble Space Telescope after an issue with a 1980s-era computer on board caused the famous orbiting observatory to temporarily shut down.

The NGC 2276 galaxy, recently imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, had previously made it to the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

Hubble telescope spies lopsided spiral galaxy deformed by gravity

By Tereza Pultarova

A galaxy considered by astronomers among the strangest in the known Universe has had its picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Hubble Space Telescope traces 5 mysterious 'fast radio bursts' to distant spiral galaxies

By Elizabeth Howell

New Hubble Space Telescope observations have given more credence to a theory explaining mysterious radio energy bursts.

Jupiter in visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths.

Stunning new images of Jupiter reveal atmosphere details in different light (video)

By Tereza Pultarova

A comparison of images captured in different wavelengths by the Hubble Space Telescope and a ground-based observatory in Hawaii helps shed light on how Jupiter's massive storms formed.

This artistic visualization shows a blue star stripping the hydrogen away from a yellow supergiant star.

'Oddball' star shocks scientists with strange supernova

By Chelsea Gohd

A massive "oddball" star's violent death has scientists puzzled.