"Space Telescope History Project"--Cover. "These items from ... were selected by the Space Telescope History Project, a joint enterprise of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, ...
Behind-the-scenes of the upcoming U.S. National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe gallery Samantha Thompson Modern astronomy began with the invention of the telescope just over 400 years ago ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, and found that ...
Three comets (C/1618 Q1, C/1618 V1, and C/1618 W1) were observed in 1618, all visible to the naked eye. C/1618 Q1, first observed in August over Hungary, marks the first known telescopic observation ...
On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than images from ground-based telescopes. In August of that year, Hubble made one of ...
On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...