29 March 2018
NASA Hubble Space Telescope Owners’ Workshop Manual
The Hubble Space Telescope is one the most iconic spacecraft of the entire Space Age and this Haynes Workshop Manual provides a good introduction to the science and technology involved. In common ...
21 July 2021
New balloon-borne astronomical telescope to rival Hubble
... an hour - a stability that should produce images as sharp as those taken with Hubble. An added advantage of carrying a telescope on a balloon is maintenance. The Hubble Space Telescope will not last forever and when it does succumb to problems, like...
08 December 2015
New light shed on the mystery of 'Born Again' stars
..., at the University of Texas, who have used the Hubble Space Telescope to ascertain why “blue stragglers” look hotter and bluer than... cluster NGC 188 that contained 21 blue stragglers. Using Hubble to identify the ultraviolet glow of a white dwarf, ...
22 June 2018
Most precise test of Einstein’s general relativity outside Milky Way
...out of the movie The Matrix – and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers calculated the mass of nearby elliptical ... stars within it. “We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving in...
March 2021
Messier 82’s starburst magnetic highway
... lines in Messier 82 overlaid on visible-and-infrared composite images (across the bottom) 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) and...
August 2018
Exoplanet census promises radical discoveries
NASA’s next large space observatory after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the Wide Field Infra-Red Survey Telescope (WFIRST). It is about the same size as its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, but has 100 times the field of view with...
