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Popular Mechanics
February 8, 2018
The Hubble Telescope's spiritual successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, is now slated or a 2019 launch. The Webb will mainly be looking at the Universe in infrared with a larger mirror than Hubble, meaning that it will be able to collect more light. More light means its will be able to look further backÃÂ ...
Newsweek
February 2, 2018
When conditions are just right, space can magically turn into a sort of magnifying glass, making even incredibly distant galaxies suddenly visible from here in the Milky Way. Now, the inherent power of the Hubble Space Telescope, combined with this trick, has let scientists stare at an incredibly faint cornerÃÂ ...
EarthSky
January 23, 2018
Astronomers said on January 11, 2018, that they've used the Hubble Space Telescope to find the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. And where else would this population of objects be, but the Orion Nebula, that nearby well-known star factory in space? The OrionÃÂ ...
Space.com
January 19, 2018
An incredible photo from the Hubble Space Telescope showcases an enormous galaxy cluster that weighs in at a whopping 3 million billion suns. Due to its ... The cluster was first discovered in 2012 by a trio of telescopes, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-rayÃÂ ...
Hubble Space Telescope at ESA
January 18, 2018
Although it may appear serene in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, the sub-cluster actually comprises two even smaller structures ... Abell 1758 has since been observed many more times by various observatories — Hubble, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton, andÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
January 16, 2018
... from the death of previous generations of stars, and they should show a different motion compared to the older stars.” In an important discovery the new research, based on nine years' worth of archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has found that aspects of both schools of thought are true.
BBC News
January 16, 2018
The Hubble telescope has bagged an unprecedented close-up view of one of the Universe's oldest known galaxies. Astronomers were lucky when the orbiting observatory captured the image of a galaxy that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The image was stretched and amplified by theÃÂ ...
The Space Reporter
January 16, 2018
This time around, we decided to combine our algorithms with the ultra-stability of Hubble to inspect the vicinity of hundreds of very young stars in every single exposure obtained by the Orion survey. It turns out that even if we do not reach the deepest sensitivity for a single star, the sheer volume of our sample allowed us toÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 15, 2018
Astronomers have seen the most distant galaxy ever as more than just a red dot. NASA's Hubble Telescope has captured a picture of the young SPT0615-JD galaxy, which existed more than 13 billion years ago. While astronomers have observed some galaxies at this distance, they have only appeared asÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
January 13, 2018
Many disc galaxies, including our own Milky Way Galaxy, have a central concentration of stars called a 'bulge.' For decades, astronomers had a simple view of Milky Way's bulge as a quiescent place composed of extremely old stars. Now, a new analysis of about 10,000 Sun-like stars reveals that ourÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
January 7, 2018
The Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 photographed the galaxy named UGC 6093, it has beautiful arms that swirl outwards from a bar slicing through the galaxy's centre - which is known as a barred galaxy. It is classified as an active galaxy which means it hosts an active galactic nucleus, which is a region atÃÂ ...
Space.com
December 20, 2017
A stunning new Hubble Space Telescope photo shows "a riot of color and light" emanating from the galaxy NGC 5256, according to the European Space ... Other observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory revealed that these nuclei, and the hot gas near them, "have been heated by shock wavesÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
December 31, 1999
Despite its lack of cosmic companions, when this lonely galaxy has a telescope pointed in its direction, it puts on quite a show. NGC 1559 has hosted a variety of spectacular exploding stars called supernovae, four of which astronomers have observed — in 1984, 1986, 2005, and 2009. This image of NGCÃÂ ...
Sky & Telescope
December 31, 1999
As telescope capabilities improve and we develop increasingly deeper large-scale surveys of our universe, we continue to learn more about small, faraway galaxies. In recent years, increasing sensitivity first enabled the detection of “green peas” — luminous, compact, low-mass (<10 billion solar masses;ÃÂ ...
Hubble Space Telescope at ESA
December 31, 1999
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting ... the ground-based TRAPPIST-South at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile; TRAPPIST-North in Morocco; the orbiting NASA Spitzer Space Telescope;ÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
December 31, 1999
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to peer deep into the famous Orion Nebula, Space Telescope Institute researcher Massimo Robberto and colleagues searched for small, faint bodies. They found 17 very-low-mass brown dwarf companions to red dwarf stars, one brown dwarf pair, and oneÃÂ ...
CBS News
December 31, 1999
Hubble, of course, was launched with a famously flawed mirror that prevented the telescope from bringing starlight to a sharp focus. ... manager of the telescope's optical system and instrument module at Goddard, said simulated starlight was directed through the super-cold observatory, from the primaryÃÂ ...
Science News
December 31, 1999
LITTLE MOON, BIG WORLD Watching the tiny ice moon Europa cross in front of Jupiter helped astronomers reveal Europa's watery plumes. This artist's impression superimposes real visible images of Jupiter and Europa with ultraviolet data from the Hubble Space Telescope showing the plumes (blue).
Futurism
November 17, 2017
According to Gardner, the JWST has several advantages over the Hubble telescope, and one of its major strengths is its ability to provide ...
Space.com
November 16, 2017
NASA's next-generation large-scale space observatory, the James Webb ... by [the Hubble Space Telescope's] Frontier Fields program, such as ...
Space.com
November 15, 2017
A new video from the Hubble Space Telescope details how scientists us the powerful observatory to study planets circling distant stars.
CBC.ca
November 14, 2017
Those experiences included work on the Hubble Space Telescope, which launched aboard the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space ...
Sci-News.com
November 13, 2017
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a dwarf galaxy ... The newly released image, acquired with Hubble's Advanced ...
Space.com
November 9, 2017
It's not made with sound, but with light and occurs when light bounces off dust clouds." [The Hubble Telescope's 10 Most Amazing Discoveries].
Space.com
November 3, 2017
Interloping asteroids snuck into a stunning Hubble Space Telescope image of a distant galaxy cluster, painting S-trails across the foreground of ...
Sci-News.com
December 31, 1999
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the 'Cosmic Snake' galaxy, an extremely distant galaxy peppered with clumpy ...
Hubble Space Telescope at ESA
September 28, 2017
The pink fireworks in this image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are regions of intense star formation, triggered by aÃÂ ...
Interesting Engineering
September 27, 2017
In September 2016, the asteroid 288P got close enough to Earth to allow astronomers a clear shot at it using the Hubble Space Telescope.
TrendinTech
September 26, 2017
Something rather unusual has been spotted by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope just recently – two asteroids that have comet-like featuresÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
September 20, 2017
Fourteen hundred light-years away, in a constellation called Auriga, the Hubble Space Telescope has detected an exoplanet that reflectsÃÂ ...
Hubble Space Telescope at ESA
September 20, 2017
With the help of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a German-led group of astronomers have observed the intriguing characteristics ofÃÂ ...
Hubble Space Telescope at ESA
September 14, 2017
Using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team led byÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
September 4, 2017
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful ... This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5559, whichÃÂ ...
Engadget
September 1, 2017
An international team of astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to measure the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation hitting allÃÂ ...
Engadget
March 22, 2017
As the telescope must unfold in space (it's shown above in a stowed position on the Ariane 5 ESL), its dynamic structure makes testing a challenge compared to the fixed-position Hubble scope. "Webb is the first time we're building for both stability ...
Vogue.com
March 22, 2017
When I opened up the kiln, they looked like a little image of the universe, as if you were peering through the Hubble telescope," she says. Her newest pieces move away from magic, and more toward the natural wonders of earth. Her pieces seem as if theyÃÂ ...
Variety
March 22, 2017
"From President Kennedy's bold challenge that led to the first moonwalk through the launch of the game-changing Hubble Telescope and the global collaboration required to create the International Space Station. As we move into a new era of research andÃÂ ...
ERAU News
March 22, 2017
On that day, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, or LIGO, recorded the first evidence of gravitational waves - ripples in space time first predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago.
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
March 22, 2017
What passengers see on multiple screens during the 15-minute trip are various angles of shuttle launches from NASA file footage and high-resolution images from the Hubble space telescope, which would not exist, nor work, without the 30-year shuttleÃÂ ...
Bristol Press
March 22, 2017
Lipton won his first Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Hartford Courant in 1992, for examining decisions that led to flaws in the Hubble telescope. More recently, Lipton won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism that showed how congressional ...
Nature.com
March 22, 2017
Astronomers hope to grab the first images of an event horizon - the point of no return.
The Marshalltown
March 20, 2017
Luhman stumbled across the third speedy star, called 'source x,' while he was hunting for free-floating planets in the Orion Nebula as a member of an international team led by Massimo Robberto of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore,ÃÂ ...
Sci-News.com
March 20, 2017
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows two galaxies (NGC 3447A and NGC 3447B) merging into one approximately 60 millionÃÂ ...
Futurism
March 19, 2017
As the iconic Hubble Telescope is phased out, the James Webb Space Telescope will continue to capture the beauty of outer space.
WAMU 88.5
March 16, 2017
Just 30 minutes from downtown D.C., NASA scientists are putting the finishing touches on the James Webb Space Telescope - the most powerful spaceÃÂ ...
WIRED
March 15, 2017
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, rivals the Hubble Space Telescope in size, and researchers have used it to study the atmosphere of other planets, the fields of gas where stars are born, and the composition of comets ...
Air & Space Magazine
March 14, 2017
Mars hs-2016-15-a-full_tif.jpg This Hubble Space Telescope image of Mars shows details 20 to 30 miles across. A solar gravitational lens telescope would get even sharper views of exoplanets up to 100 light years away. (STScI/AURA), J. Bell (ASU), and M.
KGO-TV
March 13, 2017
The European Space Agency and Nasa provided an incredible Hubble Telescope image of a young super star cluster known as "Westerlund 1." (Photo by ESA/NASA).
Science Daily
March 9, 2017
The Hubble Space Telescope probed the quasars' light for information on the speed of the gas and whether the gas is moving toward or away from Earth.
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
March 9, 2017
Chinese astronomers have renewed their ambitious attempt to build two powerful telescopes at Dome A, the highest place in Antarctica.
