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NASA Hubble Announcement: Twitter Has Some Funny Thoughts on What It'll Be

Speculation abounds for today's NASA Hubble Space Telescope announcement. The space agency plans to reveal a new discovery made by one of the world's most famous telescopes during a media teleconference today. "Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits and have seen further back in time than ever...

Best Art in the Universe? Hubble Space Telescope's Amazing Pics From 2010

(Dec. 15) -- You might think that taking highly detailed photographs of the darkest corners of the universe would be a purely scientific job. Turns out, there's an art to it. For the past 20 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the planet and wowing earthlings with breathtaking images of outer space, from...

Astronomers Spot Smallest Object in Outer Solar System

(Dec. 30) -- In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, in the outer solar system. The object is part of the Kuiper Belt, a ring of icy rocks beyond Neptune. The object, spotted in visible light by the Hubble Space...