02 March 2018
Light from the Universe’s first stars detected
..., complex data processing and hundreds of observing hours. Indirectly, they have seen farther than even the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence of the earliest stars." The EDGES instrument at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, Australia...
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...
29 December 2021
Success so far means JWST has enough fuel to extend its science lifetime, NASA say
... will need less propellant than originally planned for to put it into its final orbit. Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST will not orbit around the Earth, but instead will orbit the Sun 1.5 million kilometers...
30 March 2016
Have astronomers found the signatures of the very first black holes formed through the collapse of gas clouds?
... (CANDELS) is a powerful imaging survey of the distant Universe being carried out with two cameras on board the Hubble Space Telescope. It is designed to focus on two critical epochs in cosmic evolution, “Cosmic Dawn", less than 1 billion years after...
01 July 2019
Earliest known galaxy merger detected by ALMA
... away in the constellation Sextans. After a further analysis of the data, combined with previous observations with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), the results showed that the atomic emissions come from a single system but are divided...
22 June 2021
The NASA Kepler Mission
While everyone has heard of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), relatively few will be familiar with NASA’s Kepler mission, let alone the follow-on K2 mission performed by ...
