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...
28 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 ...
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...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
...-to-be-launched observatory is ready for the frigid, airless environment of space. The Webb telescope is set to improve our understanding of the Universe in ways like the Hubble Space telescope did when it was launched over 17 years ago. But instead...
24 December 2021
Less than 24hrs to go before the launch of JWST!
... our understanding of the Universe. With a mirror surface area roughly six times larger than that of the Hubble Space Telescope, it has the ability to see some of the earliest objects to form after the big bang, including light...
