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The 17th-anniversary celebration featured a panorama of part of the Carina Nebula, and a collection of images selected from that area. [4]In its 17 years of exploring the heavens, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made nearly 800,000 observations and snapped nearly 500,000 images of more than 25,000 celestial objects.
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 ...
Mystic Mountain is a photograph and a term for a region in the Carina Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The view was captured by the then-new Wide Field Camera 3, though the region was also viewed by the previous generation instrument. The new view celebrated the telescope's 20th anniversary of being in space in 2010. [1]
The world-famous telescope is named after Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer who studied galaxies and made major contributions to the field of astronomy in the first half of the 20th century.
In an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, Saturn’s rings display an unexplained phenomenon that looks like spokes moving across its rings.
The James Webb Space Telescope’s first images revealed new details of the cosmos, peering farther into space than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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 .
The Hubble Space Telescope, that some scientists call the most important scientific instrument in the history of humankind, turns 25 this week. Here are five of the most iconic images taken by ...