May 2024
The universe in acrylics - an artist’s passion
... be recreated as works of art. I was fortunate to have met a number of space technologists who had worked on many aspects of Hubble, so now perhaps I could celebrate the beauty of their work by way of my own artistic creations. I’d been a little lost...
14 October 2016
Observable Universe is populated with 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought
...the research paper is Christopher Conselice from the University of Nottingham, UK, painstakingly converted deep space images from Hubble and data from his team's previous work, into 3D, in order to make accurate measurements of the number of galaxies...
11 September 2020
New data suggests there is something missing from dark matter theories
... has thrown up something unusual. Using data from the Hubble telescope on these three clusters, a team of astronomers found... another feature of gravitational lensing. "The data from Hubble and the VLT provided excellent synergy," says team member...
04 October 2018
Astronomers find compelling evidence for first confirmed exomoon
... the planet’s predicted transit was also picked up by Hubble, adding more weight to the theory that an exomoon... just kept looking at that signature,” Although further observations by Hubble are needed to fully confirm the existence of Kepler-1625b-i, ...
24 March 2017
Gravitational waves expel black hole from galaxy centre
...by these ripples in space-time. By using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have found that a ...Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA) along with more Hubble time, to more accurately measure the speed of the ...
01 September 2017
TRAPPIST-1 planets could contain substantial amounts of water
... atoms can escape the exoplanets’ atmosphere. Instruments such as the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) onboard Hubble can then be used to detect the departing hydrogen. The amount of ultraviolet radiation emitted by TRAPPIST-1, does indeed...
