It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the clearest image yet of a galaxy cluster in the making, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.
The image Hubble captured was of the Egg Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,000 light-years away, according to NASA.
The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.
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A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...
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Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.
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The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.