10 of the Hubble Space Telescope’s greatest discoveries
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The cause of gamma-ray bursts
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The Hubble Space Telescope saw the ‘smoking gun’ that revealed the secrets of these enormous cosmic explosions.
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How planetary collisions work
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s impact on Jupiter was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Supermassive black holes
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Black holes are hard to find, but having the Hubble Space Telescope in your toolbelt makes things easier.
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Protoplanetary discs
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Our understanding of protoplanetary discs, or proplyds, exploded with a breakthrough from the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The age of the Universe
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The Cepheid stars discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope has helped us pinpoint the age of the Universe.
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Exoplanet atmospheres
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The Hubble Space Telescope was first to detect the atmosphere of one of these alien worlds.
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Generations of stars
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When the Hubble Space Telescope looked to the stars, it found much more than was expected.
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Dark matter
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Something is hiding in our Universe, and the Hubble Space Telescope could help us find it.
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How galaxies evolve
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The Hubble Space Telescope was able to find 3,000 galaxies looking at an area of just one 24-millionth of the whole sky.
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Accelerating expansion of the Universe
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Hubble Space Telescopes observations found that not only is the expansion of the Universe accelerating but is also being fuelled by ‘dark energy’.