17 October 2019
Hubble gets a good look at interstellar visitor Comet 2I/Borisov
...is the sharpest view ever of the interstellar comet. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the solid icy... different,” explained David Jewitt of UCLA, leader of the Hubble team who observed the comet. As the second interstellar object ...
08 March 2019
Astronomers weigh the galaxy with Hubble and Gaia
...from 12 clusters out to 130,000 light-years taken by Hubble over a 10-year period, coupled with measurements for 34 ... Observatory in Garching, Germany, lead author of the combined Hubble and Gaia study. That extrapolated figure gives a mass for...
26 April 2019
As mystery of the Universe’s expansion rate widens, a simple solution is offered
... research by Reiss and team has reduced the uncertainty in their Hubble constant value to an unprecedented 1.9 percent - that is a ...Pluto to dwarf planet status – voted to rename Hubble’s law as the Hubble–Lemaître law, in honour of Belgian priest...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...imagine the universe the James Webb Space Telescope is about to reveal. WST is not ‘Hubble’s Replacement’ but ‘Hubble’s Successor’, designed to build on Hubble’s rich legacy and even to work side-by-side with the ageing telescopic powerhouse. Despite...
17 July 2019
New measurement deepens mystery of Universe’s expansion rate
... mission, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), could one day provide a definitive figure for Hubble’s constant as the powerful space observatory aims to collect a wealth of information on new Type Ia supernovae, Cepheid variables, and...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
... as well, including changes in wind patterns, characteristics of atmospheric waves and the circulation of various gases in the atmosphere. Hubble and Gemini can monitor the planet as a whole, providing real-time base maps in multiple wavelengths for...
