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A newly released image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a kaleidoscopic scene in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), ...
The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...
Hubble’s image of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals a cotton candy-like cloudscape using light our eyes can’t see, like ...
this one also uses the near-infrared capabilities of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. Galaxies come in a number of shapes and sizes, so they are categorized by their features into groups ...
As the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates 35 years in space, here's what to know about the ambitious instrument.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have observed a globular cluster known as NGC 1754 as part of a ...
Hubble launched in 1990 with five primary instruments designed to capture images from space and transmit them back to Earth. 1. Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC) This instrument was composed ...
Different colors in the image represent four different wavelengths of light observed by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. This agglomeration of stars, a globular cluster known as NGC 1850 ...
In 1994, Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera-2 captured an image of an object at the center of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy 50 million light-years away. Though the object was as heavy as 3 ...
This image itself was also the final work of one of Hubble's instruments: the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2). Installed in 1993 to replace the original Wide Field and Planetary Camera ...