28 April 2020
Hubble turns 30!
...Webb Space Telescope. The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (the European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science...
14 October 2016
Observable Universe is populated with 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought
... populate the observable Universe[1]. Now, an international team of astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have shown that this figure is at least ten times too low. To arrive at this new figure...
07 June 2017
Rare, massive, starburst galaxies captured in detail by Hubble
The Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers an unprecedented view of some... fainter, more distant background sources. Utilising this natural magnifying lens in space, Hubble has revealed what appears to be a tangled network of misshapen objects, ...
17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
... 12 October 2019, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provided astronomers with their best look yet ...remarkable,” said Amaya Moro-Martin of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. Hubble photographed the comet at a distance of ...
28 July 2021
Hubble helps astronomers find first evidence of water vapour at Ganymede
... 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 evidence that...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
...of exoplanets come thick and fast nowadays as a multitude of telescopes both on the ground or in orbit, are programmed to constantly... mix of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and older data from the Kepler Space Telescope and the results look a lot...
