15 May 2020
An unexpected meeting could see Solar Orbiter study Comet ATLAS
... will reach its nearest point to Earth on 23 May and come to perihelion (closest to the Sun) on 31 May, 2020. Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on April 20, 2020. Image via NASA/ ESA/ STScI/ D. Jewitt (UCLA) If you've enjoyed...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
...universe. Magnetic fields lines in Messier 82 overlaid on a visible and infrared composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The galactic superwind from the central starburst is blasting out plumes of hot gas (red...
27 July 2015
Yale’s Jeffrey Kenny on cosmic wind in the NGC 4921 galaxy
... in detail. But Yale’s Jeffrey Kenney has analysed Hubble Space Telescope images of a nearby galaxy, NGC 4921, to ... leading edge. The formations were compared by Astronomy.com to Hubble’s famous “Pillars of Creation” (showing columns of dust and ...
17 February 2020
Earth-sized planet behind unusual star signals say astronomers
...approximately 300,000 square meters. For comparison, the size of the mirror tucked away on aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is around 2.4 metres. Depending on the wavelength or frequency of the light from a star, scientists know what type of process...
August 2018
Making a cosmic impression
..., Jeannie was first inspired by the images she saw coming back to us so beautifully from the Hubble Space Telescope. I was drawn in by Jeannie’s use of colour and flow in her paintings and by the way I felt like I was ...
March 2015
Dawn of ion propulsion
... framing camera Although the pictures did not yet display details quite as fine as those already discerned by Hubble Space Telescope, the different perspective is intriguing. The pictures from the second approach imaging session in late January were...
