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NASA is celebrating the 36th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in Earth’s orbit, sharing a new image of the Trifid Nebula, nicknamed the “Cosmic Sea Slug,” first revealed in 1997. The ...

Reflections cast by a growing number of satellites orbiting the Earth could ruin more than 95% of images taken by some space telescopes in the next decade, according to a NASA-led study. The reflected ...