Amy Tyndall

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9 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries © NASA

Hubble at 30 10 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries

Hubble's greatest discoveries: the cause of gamma-ray bursts © NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)

The cause of gamma-ray bursts

Hubble allowed scientists to create this 3D map of dark matter – the distance from Earth increases from left to right © NASA, ESA and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)

Dark matter

Hubble's greatest discoveries: how galaxies evolve © R. Williams (STScI), the Hubble Deep Field Team and NASA

How galaxies evolve

15 distant supernovae © NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI)

Accelerating expansion of the Universe

Hubble's greatest discoveries: how planetary collisions work © Getty Images

How planetary collisions work

Close-up of proplyds in Orion © C.R. O'Dell/Rice University; NASA

Protoplanetary discs

The blue stream of material is being ejected from a black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy © NASA

Supermassive black holes

Hubble reveals individual stars in the galaxy M81, including Cepheid variables that were used to determine that the Universe is 13.8 billion years old © NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

The age of the Universe

Artist’s impression of the planet Osiris, which lies 150 light-years from Earth © NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

Exoplanet atmospheres

The NGC 2808 globular cluster contains over one million stars of three different generations © NASA, ESA, A. Sarajedini (University of Florida) and G. Piotto (University of Padua [Padova]);

Generations of stars

Meet Tilda: the orangutan that's learnt to mimic human speech © Getty Images

Meet Tilda: the orangutan that’s learnt to mimic human speech

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