In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble ... telescope, at the time the largest in the world. He began taking photographic plates of the spiral nebulae. These glass plates recorded images ...

This video explores Euclid's “First Light” images, released in November 2023, less than a year after its launch. These ...

Astronomers Dave Jewitt and Jane Luu discovered the first icy body in the Kuiper ... University Applied Physics Laboratory The Hubble Space Telescope images initially seemed to show that the ...

Days after it returned to work, Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope has begun observing the universe and the first picture from its new pointing mode has arrived. The flying observatory captured a ...

In five years time, Hubble or the James Webb Space Telescope will collect more data to produce another image like this; by comparing the two images ... came from in the first place, billions ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to discover HH 30 ... The team of astronomers combined images from Webb, Hubble and ALMA so that they could study the appearance of the disk in multiple ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of SN 2022aajn, a Type Ia supernova in the constellation Gemini. Located 600 million light-years away, the explosion was first ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

“We are the first ... resolution. Hubble and Webb are excellent for checking out small areas in great detail. But some questions "can be answered only by looking at the big picture," according ...