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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of an object 9,000 light-years way known as IRAS 05506+2414. It "may be an ...

"After a 20-year struggle to place a large, sophisticated optical telescope in orbit the Hubble Space Telescope was finally launched in 1990, though its primary mirror was soon found to be flawed. A ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

Arp 184 or NGC 1961, a skewed or "peculiar" spiral galaxy, is still stunning in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the 338 formations cataloged by astronomer Halton Arp in 1966 in his ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate ...

For more than two decades, the standard model of cosmology has stood as a reliable guide to the universe. Known as Lambda ...

Some astronomers think one set of measurements or the other will turn out to be wrong. Others believe that the tension is a hint of deeper problems with the scientific description of the universe, ...

To destroy enough matter to explain the Hubble tension, black holes would have to merge at an unrealistic rate.

For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence that the universe is ...