May 2018
Space safety – the problem with dual hatting
... way’. Coming from an organisation that experienced the Apollo, Challenger and Columbia disasters, along with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fiasco, it is certainly worth digging deeper into both the problem and the NASA rationale. NASA...
10 March 2016
Mysterious infrared light that fills the Universe found with ALMA
... can be detected with ALMA. By comparing the ALMA data with the data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Subaru Telescope, the team found that 60% of the objects they studied are galaxies which can also be seen...
17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
...to be close to prediction.” The images will become even more spectacular as the spacecraft approaches Mars. “Telescopes on Earth and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around it can still do far better than us at present, but we are still a long way...
10 May 2017
Australia announce a strategic partnership with ESO
...The need for long-term partnerships with eight-metre-class optical/infrared telescopes was noted by the Australian government in its Decadal Plan for Australian ... sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope at the same wavelength.
February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... to curate? The answer to the latter question is perhaps an easier one to address. Scientific satellites such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have contributed enormously to our understanding of the universe and are surely worth preserving. The...
26 February 2018
A Sky Wonderful with Stars – 50 years of modern astronomy on Maunakea
... that produced those images than most. In this case it’s the telescopes sited 4200 m above sea level on Maunakea in Hawai’i. The author... unexpected photograph is one that shows the Hubble Space Telescope (as a time-lapse streak across a star field) with...
