August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
...: from Galileo to Warhol, from Van Gogh’s Starry Night to Hubble’s deep field. With this in mind, you might be able ..., you might start to see more familiar, captivating images from Hubble Space Telescope, along with aerial shots of Mars, Saturn and...
July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
... assembling the ISS, these missions serviced the Hubble Space Telescope, deployed and retrieved satellites, manoeuvred ... for the extraordinary success of Canadarm2. The first Hubble servicing mission. Canadarm2 and the MSS Canada’s contribution...
28 July 2015
Yale’s Jeffrey Kenny on cosmic wind in the NGC 4921 galaxy
... in detail. But Yale’s Jeffrey Kenney has analysed Hubble Space Telescope images of a nearby galaxy, NGC 4921...’s leading edge. The formations were compared by Astronomy.com to Hubble’s famous “Pillars of Creation” (showing columns of dust and ...
02 March 2016
Using MUSCLES to test for life on other planets
.... MUSCLES uses observations of X-rays made with Chandra and XMM-Newton, ultraviolet observations with Hubble, and visible observations from Hubble and ground-based observatories. Why study the SEDs around planets that are smaller...
22 November 2017
JWST completes crucial cryogenic test
... improve our understanding of the Universe in ways like the Hubble Space telescope did when it was launched over 17 years ago...of looking at ultra-violet, optical and infrared wavelengths like Hubble did, the JWST will concentrate on near- and mid-...
30 January 2019
New physics needed to explain early expansion of the Universe
... another burgeoning problem in cosmology - that of the Hubble constant which seeks to explain the current rate of cosmic expansion. Recent ...estimates of the Hubble constant in the local Universe based on supernova data...
