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Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary

Hubble Space Telescope at 35 | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2025

The Hubble Space Telescope is in low Earth orbit, 320 miles (515 kilometers) above the planet, placing it above most of the atmosphere. Its orbit is inclined at 28.5

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Hubble Space Telescope is still producing science at 35

Remember when NASA was laser focused on that? It was 35 years ago when the Hubble Space Telescope deployed into orbit, sent by a space agency facing an existential crisis. Thirty-five years on, not much seems to have changed.

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Hubble Space Telescope's 35th anniversary: See NASA's new out-of-this-world images

Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ever since.

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Hubble helps explore the wreckage of a supernova star explosion in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way (image)

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

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Aging gracefully: The Hubble Telescope is in 'excellent technical condition' on its 35th birthday, its chief scientist says

By teaming up with the James Webb Space Telescope, or by scientists delving into its long history of observations, Hubble is ...

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What is the most powerful telescope in the world?

Let's start with the human eye. The human eye has an angular resolution of about 1 arcminute. That's pretty impressive. Take a circle surrounding you on the horizon, divide it into 360 little bits, ...

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Tuesday Telescope: Is the James Webb Space Telescope worth $10 billion?

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission to make infrared observations. This was the ...

Is the universe really infinite? Astrophysicists explain.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

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