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Scientists Discover Galaxies Far, Far, FAR Away

3:45AM January 11, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

Astronomers have discovered the far, far away galaxies. The farthest galaxy cluster ever seen, in fact, a whooping 13.1 billion light-years away. According to the researchers, “these galaxies formed during the earliest stages of galaxy assembly, when galaxies had just started to cluster together.” More »

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Why Are These Galaxies Bending Like Crazy Snakes?

4:40AM October 14, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is MACS 1206, a galaxy cluster 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. The photo was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as part of a new broad sky survey. Can you notice something weird? Yes, some of the galaxies are distorted. More »

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These Unprecedented Hubble Movies Just Left Me Speechless

2:50AM September 2, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

When I first saw these never-before-seen time-lapse videos — captured over the course of 14 years by the Hubble Space Telescope — I just couldn’t believe my eyes. Hubble photos can be beautiful, but these videos just left me speechless. More »

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The Telescope That’ll Look Back At The Beginning Of The Universe

1:30AM May 20, 2011 | Andrew Tarantola

With the Hubble Space Telescope quickly coming to the end of its long and illustrious career, a new non-terrestrial observatory will be necessary to continue deep-space research into the origins of the universe. Why hello there, James Webb Space Telescope. More »

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Hubble Comes Of Age With Dramatic New Image

2:00PM April 21, 2011 | Nancy Atkinson - Universe Today

This dramatic look at Arp 273 shows the very photogenic group of interacting galaxies that glow bright with intense star formation, perhaps triggered by a little carousing the two galaxies are doing with each other as they approach and interact. More »

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This Is How NASA Photoshops Hubble’s Images

7:42AM March 26, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

You all have seen the Hubble’s breathtaking images. These images are not just simple photographs, but digital composites made of two or more greyscale images taken by different cameras onboard the space telescope. This video shows exactly how. More »

Gadgets

Hubble’s Personal Telescope Is Beautifully Vintage

7:00AM February 27, 2011 | Casey Chan

This is one of Edwin Hubble’s personal telescopes, the one Hubble used before he finished his Ph.D. It was given to a teacher when he left for graduate school and has been handed down from generation to generation. The telescope is beautifully vintage and to just think about the great man’s eye looking through it, and how he saw the rest of the galaxy, makes it one of a kind. [BoingBoing]

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Looks Like NASA Has Discovered The Galaxy Where The Evil Aliens Are Hiding

6:40PM January 11, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This is one of the most bizarre photos ever taken by the Hubble telescope. It shows a mysterious “ghostly green blob of gas” looming over a spiral galaxy like an evil ghost. The 300,000-light-year-long gas stream is called Hanny’s Voorwerp. More »

Entertainment

The Best Of The Year In Space

8:20AM December 28, 2010 | Gizmodo Staff

It’s been a big year for the space sciences. The first privately-held spacecraft orbited our world, the blackest material in history was created, researchers expanded the list of possible sources of life threefold; and that was just in December. More »

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A Galaxy, Edgewise

11:00AM November 10, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

This segment of light suspended in space is actually an entire galaxy, spanning 35,000 light years across and containing billions of stars. We just happen to be looking at it almost perfectly edge-on. More »