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Humans have been filling the night sky with animals for millennia, from the bear in Ursa Major, to the swan in Cygnus. But modern astronomers do it too. Take the case of jellyfish galaxy, JO206.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a jellyfish galaxy which lies more than 900 million light-years away. Known as JW39, the galaxy is located in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is one of ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows an unusual type of galaxy named for its aquatic look-alike: a jellyfish. The jellyfish galaxy JO206 is shown below in an image taken using ...

Uranus just got a little more time on its hands. A fresh analysis of a decade's worth of Hubble Space Telescope observations shows Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes and 52 seconds to complete a full ...

The Hubble was launched in 1991. It cost $1.5 billion to build and launch. It weighs 24,500 pounds, is 43.5 feet long and 14 feet wide. The Hubble orbits Earth once every 97 minutes, traveling at ...

The 'jellyfish galaxy' JW100 lies more than 800 million light-years from Earth. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A distant spiral ...

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy lies over 900 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and is one of ...

Somewhere deep in space, a nebula explodes like a giant butterfly made up of dust and stars. While it may seem like a lovely sight, it is holding a dramatic stellar death that is ejecting an envelope ...

After 35 years, the Hubble Space Telescope is still churning out hits. In just the last year or so, scientists have used the school bus–sized observatory to confirm the first lone black hole, reveal ...

The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the Space Shuttle Discovery in December 1999. Credit: NASA In the summer of 1995, Robert Williams, then director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, which ...