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Since the landing of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface in the year 1969, mankind’s great achievement to date in its efforts to explore the far reaches of the universe, has been the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the year 1990. It has been 20 years since Hubble was sent into outer space and even now, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration [...]

Since the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in the year 1990, the extremely powerful eyes in space has recorded and sent back numerous images, that have given the scientist unique insights, into the way the universe works, meteor showers, to the detection of new planets, that would have been impossible without the help of Hubble Telescope. Now, the [...]

From the Hubble telescope’s images of planetary nebulae comes the idea of how the sun will eventually look when it expires five billion years hence. Once it has exhausted its reserves of hydrogen that feeds a continuous process of nuclear fusion, the sun will become just like any of the nebulae the most beautiful of which is known as the ‘Cat’s [...]