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Last week, NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an event witnessed by millions of people around the world. It turns out we weren’t the only ones watching – a suite of telescopes was also monitoring the collision and its aftermath, including Hu… Continue reading Telescope trio captures 10,000-km tail in asteroid impact aftermath
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 with an expected lifespan of around 15 years, but servicing missions and upgrades have seen it continue to gather important science observations to this day. NASA is now exploring how it can remain operat… Continue reading NASA and SpaceX explore idea of shifting Hubble to a more stable orbit
The countdown for the first step on humanity’s return to the Moon has begun. The countdown for Artemis 1 started on Saturday morning, and if all goes well, the un-crewed …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 28, 2022
By now you’ve no doubt seen the first batch of images from NASA’s powerful new eye in the sky, the James Webb Space Telescope. But the scope of the achievement can be hard to appreciate without context, so here they are side-by-side with Hubble’s views… Continue reading James Webb vs Hubble: Side-by-side comparisons highlight visual gains
Astronomers have discovered bizarre “blue blobs” in space. These blobs are clusters of young, blue stars that are isolated from any parent galaxy, suggesting they formed from a galactic “belly flop.”Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Stars, … Continue reading Bizarre blue blobs in space may be born from galactic “belly flops”
NASA has released a huge new report that astronomers are calling Hubble’s magnum opus. Analyzing 30 years of data from the famous space telescope, the new study makes the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding.Continue Readi… Continue reading Hubble’s “magnum opus”: most precise measurement of universe’s expansion
NASA has released a huge new report that astronomers are calling Hubble’s magnum opus. Analyzing 30 years of data from the famous space telescope, the new study makes the most precise measurement yet of how fast the universe is expanding.Continue Readi… Continue reading Hubble’s “magnum opus”: most precise measurement of universe’s expansion
Hubble has spotted the most distant single star ever seen, about 12.9 billion light-years from Earth. The light from this star was emitted not long after the Big Bang, and has been magnified by a foreground galaxy and stretched out by the expansion of … Continue reading Hubble spots most distant single star ever seen, near dawn of universe
Astronomers have spotted two “invisible” galaxies hiding near the dawn of the universe. The team used radio waves to peer behind a curtain of dust that was obscuring them from view, and the find suggests that there were far more galaxies in the early u… Continue reading Astronomers spot “invisible” galaxies at the dawn of the universe
Every year, the Hubble Space Telescope conducts a grand tour of the outer solar system planets, checking their turbulent atmospheres for changes in weather, storms, clouds and colors. This year’s shots are now in, revealing a few surprises.Continue Rea… Continue reading Stunning snaps from Hubble’s latest grand tour of the outer solar system