Hubble helps map a galaxy of weird worlds

Hubble helps map a galaxy of weird worlds

NASA recently reached more than six thousand confirmed exoplanets. When the Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990, not a single exoplanet was known. Hubble’s precision and ultraviolet vision helped pioneer this field, revealing the atmospheres of distant worlds, tracing escaping gases, and uncovering exotic planets unlike anything in our solar system. Hubble continues to team up with NASA’s new generation of observatories like Webb and TESS to explore these alien worlds in ever greater detail, as scientists ask what these planets are made of, how they evolve, and whether they might harbor life.

Gobble's Take: Space keeps finding new ways to be bizarre, and Hubble is still one of the best weirdness detectors we have. Source: NASA Goddard

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