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The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST; in orbit since 1990) and for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST; scheduled to be launched in 2018).
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Four billion years from now, the Milky Way galaxy as we know it will cease to exist.
Our Milky Way is bound for a head-on collision with the similar-sized Andromeda galaxy, researchers announced today (May 31). Over time, the huge galactic smashup will create an entirely new hybrid galaxy, one likely bearing an elliptical shape rather than the Milky Way's trademark spiral-armed disk."We do know of other galaxies in the local universe around us that are in the process of colliding and merging," Roeland van der Marel, of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, told reporters today. "However, what makes the future merger of the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way so special is that it will happen to us."Astronomers have long known that the Milky Way and Andromeda, which is also known as M31, are barrelling toward one another at a speed of about 250,000 mph (400,000 kph). They have also long suspected that the two galaxies may slam into each other billions of years down the road....WASHINGTON — A new image from NASA's Hubble Telescope has provided astronomers with the earliest snapshot ever taken of galaxies in the universe's infancy, about 600...
In the last 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized the way humanity views the universe. In many ways, it may have been the most influential telescop...
The star of the Warner Brothers' new IMAX film "Hubble 3D" was missed Tuesday evening at the movie's world premiere at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum ...
WASHINGTON — NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.The Kepler Telescope , launch...
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)An artist's concept of a craggy piece of Solar System debris that belongs to a class of bodies called trans-Neptunian objects. Astrono...
NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)This is an artist's concept of the exoplanet WASP-12b. It is the hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy, and potentially the sho...
'Planet X' May Lurk Far Beyond PlutoThursday, June 19, 2008 By Ker ThanPrint NASA/STScI/A. SchallerAn artist's rendering of the distant world Sedna, with the sun lit...
WASHINGTON — NASA's new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.The Kepler Telescope , launch...
Hubble Space Telescope Hits Orbit 100,000Tuesday, August 12, 2008 By Clara MoskowitzPrint NASA-ESAA photo of a nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 released to comm...
Hidden Radio Supernova Finally FoundWednesday, May 27, 2009Print Milde Science Communication, NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Brunthaler, MPIfRT...
Hidden Planet Discovered in Old Hubble DataFriday, April 03, 2009Print NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI) via space.comArtistic illustration of the giant planet HR 8799...
Pluto's Identity Crisis Hits Classrooms, BookstoresTuesday, June 24, 2008 By Jeanna BrynerPrint NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)An artist's conception of the view from...
Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct hea...
Last year, using the exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope as a guide, astronomers took a statistical stab at estimating the number of exoplanets that ...
With the space shuttle now history, NASA's next great mission is so audacious, the agency's best minds are wrestling with how to pull it off: Send astronauts to an a...
Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that ...
Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace, a stunning revelation that ...
A huge, powerful star explosion detonated in deep space last week — an ultra-bright conflagration that has astronomers scratching their heads over exactly how it hap...
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have peered further back in time than ever before, spotting a galaxy that formed less than 500 million years after the b...
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