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NASA Confirms Largest Comet Ever Seen
On Wednesday, NASA announced its Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the largest icy comet nucleus ever seen by astronomers.
The estimated diameter is approximately 80 miles across, and its nucleus is about 50 times larger than that found at the...
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NASA’s Hubble Spots Farthest Star Ever Seen
NASA said on Wednesday that its Hubble Space Telescope detected the farthest individual star ever seen to date that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang.
The American space agency said that the...
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NASA’s Hubble Captures Galaxy 68 Million Light Years from Earth
NASA announced on Friday that its Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a "jewel-bright" spiral galaxy, which is 68 million light years from Earth.
NASA and the European Space Agency shared the photo of this sparking "new" galaxy on Friday....