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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope blasted into orbit on April 24, 1990, making it 34 years old. For this birthday, the Hubble team has turned the aging observatory toward the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also ...

Located around 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero Galaxy is instantly recognisable. Viewed nearly edge on, the galaxy’s softly luminous bulge and sharply outlined ...

Astronomers celebrated Hubble Space Telescope’s 34th anniversary of its launch this week by capturing an incredible image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76. The distant nebula is ...

Since it launched into space on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been an invaluable instrument to astronomers in unraveling the mysteries of the universe. As it orbits the Earth from 340 ...

Tomorrow, April 24, marks the 34th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope. For more than three decades, this venerable old telescope has been peering out into space, observing stars, ...

Space scientists are celebrating Hubble's 36th birthday week with a jaw-dropping image of a space "sea slug." NASA has revealed a new observation of a star-formation region called the Trifid Nebula.