28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
... space observatory in history. Its archival data alone will fuel future astronomy research for generations to come. Hubble's longevity can be attributed to five space shuttle servicing missions, from 1993 to 2009, in which astronauts upgraded the...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
...'s surface sublimates -- that is, turns from solid to gas. Scientists used new and archival datasets from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to make the discovery, published in the journal Nature Astronomy. Previous research has offered circumstantial...
07 June 2017
Rare, massive, starburst galaxies captured in detail by Hubble
... They're also very rare: they don't appear in any of Hubble's deep-field surveys. They are in random parts of the sky...make it happen?" As Lowenthal's team is only halfway through its Hubble survey of 22 galaxies, and with plans to use the Gemini ...
June 2015
Hubble’s 25th Anniversary
.... The Pillars of Creation Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team This image shows the Eagle Nebula’s pillars... the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a “deep...
29 November 2017
Deepest spectroscopic survey completed of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
...observed over the last decade by ground-based telescopes. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) – a relatively tiny patch... of the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal. “MUSE can do something that Hubble can’t — it splits up the light from every point in the...
12 July 2019
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn't exist
... Johns Hopkins University. The disc’s material was measured by Hubble to be whirling around the black hole at more than ... on the other. This effect is known as relativistic beaming. Hubble’s observations also show that the gas is embedded so deep in...
