06 June 2016
Galaxies guilty of 'wasting' precious planet building material
... and most of the material needed to build new stars is ejected up to a million light years away. Using the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph (COS) installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the study shows that more iron, carbon and oxygen...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... with Hubble. The team's analysis combined the data from two instruments: Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph in 2018 and archival images from the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) from 1998 to 2010. To their surprise, and contrary to the...
01 February 2016
Enormous gas cloud on a collision course with the Milky Way
... chemical makeup of the cloud can be estimated. Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph can measure how the light from distant background objects is... in its disk, but, for most of them, their origins remain a mystery. The Smith Cloud is certainly one of ...
