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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the first space telescope , but it is one of the largest and most versatile, renowned as a vital research tool and as a public relations boon for astronomy .
MACS J0416.1-2403 or MACS0416 abbreviated, is a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of z=0.397 with a mass 160 trillion times the mass of the Sun inside 200 kpc (650 kly).Its mass extends out to a radius of 950 kpc (3,100 kly) and was measured as 1.15 × 10 15 solar masses. [2]
On 8 August 2023, the colors of Earendel were detected, and an image was captured by both the Hubble and Webb telescopes. [17] Based on Webb's NIRCam data, Earendel is a "massive B-type star more than twice as hot as our Sun, and about a million times more luminous". [3] Webb's observations revealed hints of a cooler, redder companion star.
When our sun dies about 5 billion years from now, it might look something like this glowing celestial display, which was captured from 4,600 light-years away with the Hubble Space Telescope. Stars ...
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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) is the Hubble Space Telescope's last and most technologically advanced instrument to take images in the visible spectrum. It was installed as a replacement for the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 during the first spacewalk of Space Shuttle mission STS-125 (Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4) on May 14 ...
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