Behold, the most distant supernova explosion ever photographed

You're looking at one of the most far-flung star explosions ever recorded. Dubbed Supernova UDS10Wil (aka "SN Wilson," after Woodrow Wilson), it detonated more than 10 billion years ago, but only recently has its light found its way to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

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Hubble telescope has just spotted a Space Invader

NASA has just released a photo captured by its Hubble Space Telescope that reveals a deep cosmic entity that looks suspiciously like a Space Invader. Not an alien race bent on human destruction, but rather a cluster of galaxies located billions of light years from Earth (dubbed "Abel 68"), observations of which bear a…

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This spectacular image is the deepest view of the Universe ever…

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have just released the most detailed view of the early Universe ever captured. It's called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF for short. The image combines over ten years' worth of photographs by Hubble. It required 2-million seconds of exposure time to produce, and…

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The Most Breathtaking Space Pictures You've Never Seen Before

Many people associate Hubble Space Telescope with beautiful images of the cosmos — but the truth is that the majority of Hubble's observations, while scientifically valuable, are pretty boring from a purely visual standpoint.

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Hubble has spotted an ancient galaxy that shouldn't exist

This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn't exist at all. It's called a "grand-design" spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old. Like, really, really old. According to a new study conducted by researchers using NASA's Hubble Telescope, it dates back roughly…

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