{"id":48505,"date":"2025-04-25T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48505\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:02:10","slug":"see-nasas-new-out-of-this-world-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/48505\/","title":{"rendered":"See NASA’s new out-of-this-world images"},"content":{"rendered":"

During its 35 years of orbiting the Earth, the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of “dark matter,”<\/a> and helped track a vagabond black hole<\/a> moving through the Milky Way.<\/p>\n

To celebrate the Hubble telescope’s 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images<\/a> on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a white dwarf star in the middle.<\/p>\n

Built by Lockheed Martin<\/a> in Sunnyvale, California, the Hubble Space Telescope<\/a> was launched on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 24, 1990. Since it orbits above the Earth, it can capture better cosmic images than telescopes on the ground.<\/p>\n

Hubble has made more than 1.6 million observations over the course of its lifetime, NASA says<\/a>. And Hubble’s discoveries have spawned more than 21,000 peer-reviewed science papers.<\/p>\n

The James Webb Space Telescope<\/a>, which orbits the sun, has captured much space news attention<\/a>, but it certainly hasn’t put Hubble out of business.<\/p>\n

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?<\/p>\n

The Hubble telescope was designed to be the first space-based observatory, which could be serviced and upgraded while it remained in orbit.<\/p>\n

It was named after Edwin Hubble<\/a>, the astronomer who showed that other galaxies existed beyond our own and came up with a classification scheme distinguishing galaxies by shape.<\/p>\n

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This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899, which has a nearly 40,000-degree-Fahrenheit white dwarf at the center.<\/p>\n

About the same size as a school bus, the Hubble telescope uses three types of instruments to capture images across the universe:<\/p>\n