In a combined image from the two space telescopes, two star clusters shine in the darkness of space. A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky ...

A vibrant and shimmering new image of a massive galaxy cluster is dazzling astronomers. By combining the James Webb Telescope’s (JWST) infrared sight with the Hubble Space Telescope’s (HST) optical ...

NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes face operational cuts due to budget constraints. Reduced funding will likely decrease the number of science operations for both telescopes. Hubble may lose some ...

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 of ...

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The combination of the two telescopes' super powers reveals previously unseen features of a pair of distant galaxies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for the past 35 years. For the majority of people alive today, the HST has been ...

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The JWST has dazzled since it began sending images back to Earth, but sometimes even the most advanced space telescope ever needs a little help from a friend. On Monday, the European Space Agency ...

James Webb telescope finds a warped 'Butterfly Star' shedding its chrysalis — Space photo of the week James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space ...

The unveiling today of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a spectacular new set of images from the Hubble Space Telescope, brings mixed emotions to astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken its first new images since switching to an alternate operating mode that uses one gyroscope (gyro). The spacecraft returned to science operations on June 14th ...