Hubble Space Telescope

First evidence of water vapour at Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

Astronomers have used archival datasets from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the first evidence for water vapour in the atmosphere of Jupiter’s...

Astronomers make first clear detection of a moon-forming disc around an exoplanet

Using the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, astronomers have unambiguously detected the presence of...

Hubble captured an unbarred spiral galaxy in fantastic detail

It is about 130,000 light-years across.

Hubble detected changes in Saturn’s vast and turbulent atmosphere

Hubble sees changing seasons on Saturn.

First cloudless, Jupiter-like planet discovered

It completes a rotation around its star in just four-and-a-half days.

Astronomers dissected the anatomy of two planetary nebulae

Shedding new light on nebula formation processes.

A mysterious dark vortex is seen on Neptune

Dark Storm on Neptune reverses direction, possibly shedding a fragmens.

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