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Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a 'cosmic tadpole' in a sea of red
By Jamie Carter published
Amid the Soul Nebula's harsh red light, a cocoon of gas holds baby stars in the making in this ethereal new Hubble telescope image.
New Chinese space telescope will 'outdo Hubble', researchers claim
By Leonard David published
China's Xuntian space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024 and was designed to outdo NASA's Hubble.
Space photo of the week: Warped 'hummingbird galaxy' guards a cosmic egg
By Jamie Carter published
Hubble's image of two colliding galaxies, known as Arp 142, show how a small galaxy's gravity has shredded a once-large spiral into a birdlike figure.
Space photo of the week: Hubble spies a spectacular galaxy crash
By Jamie Carter published
Arp 107 hosts a special spiraling 'Seyfert' galaxy connected to a smaller galaxy by a 'bridge' of dust and gas.
An ancient, ravenous black hole has been hiding an 11-billion-year-old galaxy in its glare
By Robert Lea published
A team of astronomers has used a tricky technique to study an ancient galaxy previously lost in the glare of a blazing quasar.
Space photo of the week: A cosmic 'ghost' peers through the universe's past
By Jamie Carter published
Imaged beautifully by Hubble, NGC 6684 is a 'lenticular' galaxy very different to our own Milky Way.
James Webb Space Telescope: Origins, design and mission objectives
By Andrew May last updated
Reference NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has launched and it's the most powerful in history, giving us the deepest ever view into our universe.
New Hubble footage shows exact moment a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid 7 million miles from Earth
By Elizabeth Howell published
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission slammed into a small space rock last year, and the effects were visible from Earth orbit.
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