01 January 2023
Handprints on Hubble - An Astronaut's Story of Invention
... interview for NASA’s astronaut corps, a ninety minute grilling from “fourteen experienced space professionals” that put the 26-year-old on the road to a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) repair mission. That’s not where most job interviews lead, but...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
...control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on 30 January 2020. My first Great Observatory was the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). I was a team member on the high resolution spectrograph, which was one of the instruments that Ball...
02 December 2015
Displaced dusty planet booted out of its birthplace
... professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, using the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) and the Hubble Space Telescope, a tantalising new discovery found around HD 106906b has prompted a rethink of its past history. Measurements made...
27 April 2016
Dwarf planet MakeMake found to have a moon
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that MakeMake – the third ... that no doubt will be aided by observations from the Hubble Space Telescope – a spacecraft that has been instrumental in studying our outer solar system.
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...[4] with the detection of sodium trace element absorption features in Hubble Space Telescope observations at visible wavelengths. Since then, transmission spectroscopy using Hubble, Spitzer and ground-based facilities has provided detections of ionic...
29 March 2018
A see-through galaxy questions the need for dark matter
... gravitational effects it appears to have on astronomical objects. However, this new study by astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories of a galaxy known as NGC 1052-DF2 that appears to have very little...
